A lot of Democrats don't like to talk to the kinds of rural, white, poor voters who used to vote Democrat but in 2016 voted for President Trump in huge numbers. Those voters don't want to help themselves, those Democrats say, so why bother?

Krystal Ball, a former MSNBC host, has decided to bother. She started a PAC specifically designed to help Democrats win in places where Democrats haven't won in a long time. It's not always an easy task.