Farmers backed Trump. Now some say they’re losing patience.


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Scott Thomsen is a fourth-generation Nebraska farmer and three-time voter for President Donald Trump. For years, he voted Republican, drawn to the party’s message of fiscal restraint. Not anymore. “I’m pretty disenfranchised as a voter right now, and I think I’m not the only one,” Thomsen said. “Either I’m going to completely sit these elections out, or I’m going to vote down the line, incumbents out.” Farmers, one of Republicans’ most loyal voting blocs, are increasingly voicing discontent with the party’s policies, which they say are making an already precarious business even harder. For years, the costs to be a…

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