Local diners are a fixture of such stories, and not only because they’re a good place for reporters to find sources. It has all the hallmarks of the so-called “Trump Country Diner” genre: Journalism that takes reporters to a hardscrabble setting-often a small town built around a closing plant, abandoned mine, or boarded-up Main Street-to learn more about the opinions of its white, working-class, politically conservative residents. If you’ve followed political journalism at all in the last few years, this story probably feels familiar. He’s a Washington outsider, an iconoclast aiming to shake things up. The prospect of economic hardship haunts these interactions: “While there are still about 2,000 workers at the plant,” the Times will later report, “it is being phased out and eventually will be closed.” The workers are receptive to the Presidential candidate’s message. The New York Times is there, covering the candidate’s conversations with former employees of the Western Electric plant, which is located across the street. Here’s a story: A Presidential candidate makes a campaign stop at the Chat and Chew, a diner in a Rust Belt town that’s long been a Democratic stronghold but has started to trend more Republican.
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