Trump’s popularity is slipping in rural areas

Chris Kahn and Tim Reid report on a poll that shows the American president’s popularity is eroding in the small towns and rural communities that helped him to get elected    

A Donald Trump supporter poses with a gun at a rally for Trump on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio. Picture: Spencer Platt/Getty

Outside the Morgan County fair in McConnelsville, in a rural swath of Ohio that fervently backed US president Donald Trump in last year’s election, ticket seller John Wilson quietly counts off a handful of disappointments with the man he helped elect.