As mid-western states grapple with historic flooding that's devastating communities and threatening crop rotations and livestock, some voters are demanding action on what they see as the cause: climate change and more extreme weather patterns.
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"Whether they're attributing it to climate change is another question, but people know things are changing," added Bouska, who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016.As midwestern states grapple with historic flooding that is devastating communities and threatening crop rotations and livestock, some voters are demanding action on what they see as the cause: climate change and more extreme weather patterns.
At another town hall, across the Mississippi River, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, voters told their congressman, Rep. Ron Kind, a Democrat, that the effect of climate change on the farming community was worse than many in Washington might think. Later, along the swollen banks of the Mississippi, with sheets of ice gliding downstream to some of the areas hardest hit by the flooding, Bernie Sanders' supporters protested outside a birthday party for Kind, demanding"Medicare for all" and more robust action to counter climate change.
Neumann knows that he faces an uphill battle. Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District voted for Trump in 2016 by 2 percentage points after going for President Barack Obama in 2012.
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