Mr. Murray is seeking for Mr. Trump to make the same very large and significant commitments to support the United States coal industry, which Senator Cruz has made. Trump, after waiting for a bit, put the hat on.
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Another hurdle for reviving coal mining in Appalachia: less coal. But: The crowd went bananas.
The association said the decision to back Trump was unanimous and came, at least partially, as a result of Democrat Hillary Clinton’s proposed policies to cut coal use and jobs.
While such bipartisan support would expand Clinton’s base of potential voters, a series of high-profile endorsements from Republican officials could dampen enthusiasm among some in her own party.
In public, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is brushing aside concerns that Donald Trump’s nomination will hamper his chances at reelection.
West Virginia last voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in 1996, when Mr Bill Clinton was running for his second four-year term.
With 13, 000 in attendance and with hundreds of miners seated right behind him at the Charleston Civic Center, Donald Trump donned a miner’s hard hat.
At a CNN town-hall-style forum in March, Clinton asserted: “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business”. She has since apologized for this statement, arguing her words were “taken out of context”. “It was a misstatement, because what I was saying is that the way things are going now, we will continue to lose jobs”. “I think we need to have a raise for the American people, raise the minimum wage, get wages back going up”, Ms. Clinton said.
Political campaigns are about convincing voters that you will make their lives better.
Locke has an extensive history in Washington politics, as well as on the national and global level. But if miners there scorn Clinton like they are in West Virginia and Kentucky, Democrats could suffer a reversal of fortune in the region that could be the pivotal factor in this election.
Trump was in the state yesterday and has clearly been eating it up.
Donald Trump says he would bring back lost coal-mining jobs, and he is positioning for the November election in big coal states by portraying Hillary Clinton as a job killer.
Part of that decline was a function of efficiency improvements. Reserves of coal still in the ground are smaller than in western states like Wyoming, the leading coal producer. He compared stalled federal rules curbing emissions from coal-fired power plants to regulations that he said have weakened his hair spray.
Certainly, shifting away from coal has been a priority of environmentalists.
Kennedy and his family made a lot of visits to West Virginia. Now that figure is 1 in 28.
Trump dismissed those claims, repeating an oft-cited – but debunked – suggestion that Clinton herself was the first to question Obama’s birthplace.
There’s not much evidence that the industry can be revived. Natural gas is cleaner for the air than burning coal. I think it’s time to get serious.
But that’s only as a raw count.
US coal production fell 10 percent previous year.
When it became economically advantageous to move manufacturing overseas, that’s exactly what happened.
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“And we’re going to change it around”.
