Inside the event, Bo Copley, a laid off coal miner, confronted Clinton about her pledge to eliminate coal jobs. A group of coal miners gathered across the street to protest her and her policy ideas.
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But at the same time, Clinton isn’t willing to give up on places such as the coal-mining region of Kentucky and West Virginia.
The crowd demanded that Clinton “go home!” and held up a finger at her large black “Scooby Van”. Liz Cheney, congressional candidate and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, also criticized Clinton and her husband Bill in a radio ad earlier this year for not supporting the coal industry.
“The miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, Ohio and all over, they’re going to start to work again”, Trump said. You know? I don’t know any coal miners.
While that remark was taken out of context-she followed it by saying ‘”And we’re going to make it clear that we don’t want to forget those people” -Republicans jumped on the first part of the statement. She was responding to a question about how her policies would benefit poor white people in southern states.
“I just want to know how you can say you are going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs and then come in here and tell us how you’re going to be our friend?” the man, Bo Copley, asked the Democratic front-runner during a round table in West Virginia Monday, referring to a remark she made while touting a clean energy plan at a CNN town hall in March. Copley, who handed Clinton a picture of his three children during a roundtable discussion in Williamson that was met by protesters, and told Clinton, “The reason you hear those people out there is because, when you make comments that you’re going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs, these are the people you’re affecting”. She had to face the fallout from that comment at a campaign event in Williamson, West Virginia on Monday. “What I said is that is going to happen unless we take action to help and prevent it”.
“It was a pretty outrageous sight to see Don Blankenship, of all people, apparently rallying against Hillary Clinton’s plans and commitment to help our coal communities”.
Mike Stuart, co-chairman of the Trump campaign in West Virginia, said he believes Trump could win over 70 percent of the vote in a general election match-up against Clinton.
Goldberg then explained to her co-host: “That’s what he heard and that’s why he said, ‘How can you say this and then come in and say you want to be my friend?'”
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“The difference between us and them is that we listen to them”, he added.
