SHASTA COUNTY - Shasta County, California, has shifted from a Democratic stronghold to a base of support for Trump, according to a Guardian report on Shasta County politics by Dani Anguiano. The report says the county was once made a blue bastion under Franklin D. Roosevelt and is now Trump's stronghold in the state. Its headline asks whether the county is forever lost to Democrats.
The Guardian's summary says Shasta has embraced the MAGA movement "with gusto." The piece asks whether Democrats can ever win back the rural, working-class voters the party once relied upon, according to the same summary. The summary presents this as a question the article raises.
The Guardian ties that question to the 1932 election. According to its summary, a crucial election was approaching that year, the country was desperate, and nearly a quarter of the United States was out of work. Voters headed to the polls despite promises that economic conditions were improving, the summary states.
The summary describes 1932 as the darkest time since the Civil War, and its text breaks off mid-sentence at that point. Because the material available for this report is partial, it cannot confirm how the article answers the question it poses or what current vote totals show for the county. The available text does not include further findings, figures, or quotations from the article.