In a televised special for MSNBC, Bernie Sanders paid a visit to “Trump Country” Monday night, taking part in a town hall with residents of McDowell County, W.Va.

Before Trump won 75 percent of the vote in McDowell County last November, Sanders easily defeated Hillary Clinton in the county’s Democratic presidential primary in May. Given the widely-accepted theory that Trump’s populist message resonated with rural voters in a way that Mitt Romney and John McCain did not, the town hall set out to explore whether, perhaps, Sanders’ populist message could do the same.