US farmers turn towards Biden over Trump's past agricultural policies

For two decades, Christopher Gibbs, a row crop and cattle farmer in Shelby county, Ohio, was an ardent Republican party member. He served as chair of his county's Republican party branch for seven years and when Donald Trump became the party's presidential candidate in 2016, Gibbs, like more than 80% of Shelby county voters, fell in line. But in 2018, everything changed. Watching Trump stand alongside Vladimir Putin at a summit in Helsinki, in which the president sided with his Russian counterpart against US law enforcement agencies that had indicted Russian intelligence officers for interfering in the US election in…