Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton kicked off a two-day tour of West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky by saying she was “sad” and “sorry” about the reaction to her saying in a CNN town hall in March, “we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business”.
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Bill Clinton is to campaign for her Tuesday in Morehead, Lexington and Louisville. Republicans quickly pounced, and Democrats in West Virginia were so stung by the remark that Senator Joe Manchin, who had endorsed Clinton almost a year earlier, put out word that he immediately called her and threatened to pull his support.
And that guy they told all these people that wanted to say, “You’re not presidential, ‘ that guy was Harry Truman”.
“Change is hard for everyone and transition is hard for everyone, and I think it’s very difficult for anyone whose families for generations have worked for that sector”, she said.
“When she was a senator, she worked to protect and advance manufacturing jobs, including casting a critical vote to save the auto industry”, Bill Clinton said, referencing the 2008-2009 auto industry bailout bill.
Bill Clinton, who is scheduled to make several appearances in the state Tuesday, carried Kentucky in both his presidential elections.
She apologized, trying to explain her much-publicized remarks from March, in which, touting her plan to reinvest in coalfield communities, she said, “We’re going to put a lot of coal companies and coal miners out of business”. One can not know what she would do if she is elected president.
“I know that, though”, Clinton said, her voice low.
He also claimed Hillary is the only candidate who talks about small businesses and says she’s more interested in moving the country forward, not backwards.
Clinton touted her $30 billion plan to assist coal workers and also promised to do more for the steel industry.
Trump may afford them new opportunities to expand what’s known as the Obama coalition: her aides calculate the billionaire’s penchant for controversy could lead her to enough support among minority and female voters to put traditionally Republican-leaning states such as Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona into play. “I think that a lot of these people are going to join my campaign”.
Clinton last month criticized China’s announcement that it was encouraging increased steel output amid a global surplus that is driving down prices and said, if elected, she would crack down on Chinese trade practices.
“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 Monday. He acknowledged that in West Virginia – where voters have grown significantly more conservative during the Obama presidency – his support for Clinton might hurt him.
Speaking to a crowd of a few hundred people in the state Capitol’s rotunda, Clinton’s later speech mirrored that of the one from Logan.
She added, “Whether or not West Virginia supports me, I’m going to support you”.
“This is where they start screaming because they don’t want to hear this”, Bill Clinton said as the protesters apparently left or were escorted out of the venue.
‘I want you to know I’m going to do whatever I can to help no matter what happens politically’.
Mingo County, where Clinton’s event was Monday, was once one of the top coal-producing counties in the country.
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Gasnarez has a candidate in mind but declined to say whom she might vote for.
