Post by Odysseus on Aug 17, 2020 1:19:15 GMT
A Pennsylvania dairy and soybean farmer who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 will be speaking on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at the party's convention later this week. Rick Telesz, a registered Democrat who voted for Mr Trump in 2016 because he believed the president would "look after the working man" and "drain the swamp," now regrets that vote and has done a 180-degree turn. "He's a hell of a salesman. And a tremendous con man. He conned me," Mr Telesz told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Mr Trump's trade war with China has threatened to put Mr Telesz' third-generation family farming operation out of business, he told the Gazette. Keeping up with the agricultural giants to produce soybean and dairy requires farmers to earn profits year over year so they can invest in new, ever-improving equipment.
That kind of money isn't flowing in right now, Mr Telesz said.
Mr Trump's trade war with China has threatened to put Mr Telesz' third-generation family farming operation out of business, he told the Gazette. Keeping up with the agricultural giants to produce soybean and dairy requires farmers to earn profits year over year so they can invest in new, ever-improving equipment.
That kind of money isn't flowing in right now, Mr Telesz said.