She arrived at the restaurant about 1 p.m., about 15 minutes late, but spent several minutes greeting people lined on the sidewalk across from the eatery that advertises itself on Facebook as “Where Italy Meets Appalachia”.
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Also on Tuesday, Sen. Mike Lee, Texas Rep. Louis Gohmert and conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck.
Trump, for his part, held a pair of rallies in the state Monday. Not good news for Clinton as both West Virginia and Kentucky hold their nominating contests on this month.
“We’ll win it next week or the week after or the week after, and it’s fine, because they have no path and I have an easy path”, Trump said.
Former President Bill Clinton drew boos and shouts from the crowd as he made a campaign stop in West Virginia coal country ahead of the state’s May 10 presidential primary.
During a speech earlier this week at the Clinton campaign headquarters in Indianapolis, Bill Clinton drew contrasts between his wife and Sanders, and described the senator’s proposals as unrealistic.
Bill Clinton will be the featured guest at a reception on Thursday, May 5.
“I know that my chances are pretty hard to be honest”, said Clinton, who vowed to return to the region before the November election.
Clinton plans stops in Morehead, Lexington and Louisville.
A home mortgage, he said, is “no more a lifetime asset than a college education is”.
That portion of his presentation resonated with Tina Gasnarez. “Obviously, if I’m fortunate enough to be president, I’m gonna be as focused to help West Virginia as I can whether or not people in West Virginia support me, I’m gonna support you”. I want my family to know that they have a future here in this state, because this is a great state.
On Monday, she met union leaders and some of the 600 workers who were laid off previous year when AK Steel Holding Corp announced it would idle a furnace in eastern Kentucky. “Let me hear you say yes!” she chants to applause. “She will make a change”, she said. “You’re going to have a say in it for the first time in 40 years”. “She has strong policy positions”.
It will be an uphill struggle for Clinton in Appalachia.
“I don’t think Hillary would come here to make you promises that we can’t keep”, he said.
A pregnant Chelsea Clinton soon takes the mic to rally the troops.
“I’m gonna do everything I can to help”, she said. We wish them the best in their campaign. Yes, during Bill Clinton’s Presidency, we did see a major effort to revamp health care, with the goal of universal health-care coverage, only to fall to prey to those “Harry & Louise” commercials.
And finally, Hunter Walker reports that Heidi Cruz dismissed the idea that her husband is the Zodiac Killer.
“I think it’s incredibly helpful”, said Stout, 35. “It was gutsy of her to offer and counterintuitive for me to accept”, Clinton writes. Anyone who questions her credentials is wrong, he said.
Clinton, 68, spent more than an hour on the shop’s third floor section, where windows were closed after his arrival.
Three generations of Romeros came out to support Hillary Clinton. But its location in a largely black neighborhood underscored the Clintons’ historically strong support in the black community.
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“At the very heart of all that we have done and continue to do”, Johnson said, “is the mining industry”.
