In final push, Hallquist targets rural voters and hopes for blue wave

Passing through North Wolcott, riding shotgun in an orange Jeep Renegade, Christine Hallquist pointed to a run-down general store on an empty thoroughfare.

Bound for a campaign event in Newport, Hallquist, the Democratic nominee for governor, noted that the internet connection in this rural area was “practically non-existent.”

“Every time it rains it knocks out,” she said. “You could never run a business up here.”

With less than a month until the election, Hallquist says she has been spending a lot of time on the road, crisscrossing the state, making her pitch to voters in Vermont’s most rural communities.

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