“The difference between us and them is that we listen to them”, he added.
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Hillary Clinton was met in Ashland on Monday by just a handful of supporters and a lone heckler, who shouted: “Go home, Hillary!” She said Monday that “whether people vote for me or not, whether they yell at me or not, it’s not going to affect what I will do to help”.
United States presidential candidate Hillary Clinton talked to steel workers in the Appalachian region about their economic struggles on Monday, as she tried to win over blue-collar voters in a part of the country where support for Republican Donald Trump is strong. “Honestly, if I can be candid, I still think supporting her hurts you”, Copley said. “I don’t mind anybody being upset or angry”.
On Tuesday, Clinton is expected to tout her plan to transition West Virginia and Kentucky coal communities to clean energy economies – and she’s planning to tell it to their faces. “I want you to send me to those Native American reservations out there where those good people have nothing because they don’t have gambling. They are going to keep getting taken to the cleaners”, Priebus said in an opinion piece for RealClearPolitics.
“This is my family”, said Copley.
“I do feel a little bit sad and sorry that I gave folks the reason, or the excuse, to be so upset with me, because that is not what I intended at all”, Clinton said, CBS News reported. For Appalachia, it can be considered a tough love plan – the cultural legacy of coal will die, but $30 billion will be invested into the promise of a new future: infrastructure improvements, health programs for former coal miners, mine land remediation, training and education programs, and incentives for business investment in the region. “I’m not writing off any part of America, any people in our country, and that includes West Virginia and coal country”.
Bo Copley, an out-of-work coal miner, said that even after confronting Hillary Clinton that he would still not support her. “But I will tell you, I will work my heart out for you”.
“It didn’t mean that we were going to do it”, Clinton explained further. “That is just how I am made”. And so I made one misstatement, you know, and I apologized for that.
Brown has repeatedly said he doesn’t want to be vice president but has not said what his answer would be if Clinton asks him to join the ticket. I think that’s what the problem is. She wouldn’t be here if she felt that way.
“We had a very frank discussion”, Manchin said. “And if my political life is on the line, so be it”.
The Democratic presidential candidate used Blankenship, who will soon head to federal prison to serve one year for conspiracy, to call for better safety rules for miners.
GOLDBERG: Yes, but when you say to people who are desperately trying to hold onto jobs – Because you know the coal miners. Several were carrying Trump signs and alternated between chants of “Benghazi!”
“I used to like Joe when he was governor”, Jarrell said.
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Sanders plans to visit three more West Virginia communities before he contends in next week’s primary election.
