Transcript: Chloe Maxmin on how the left can reclaim rural America

Talking with the former Maine state senator about why the right is winning the battle for rural hearts and minds and her playbook for a "Democratic resurgence"

In 2018, Chloe Maxmin, a progressive Democrat then in her late twenties, won a seat in Maine’s House of Representatives, in a red district that, as was noted by observant national publications, contains the most rural county in America’s most rural state.

Was it a fluke, or a new path through the woods?

In 2020, she sought and won elevation to Maine’s Sta…