

mining companies, to include Peabody Energy Corp. fell to its lowest level in nearly three decades, or less than 900 million tons. Bernie Sanders holds a rally in Morgantown, West Virginia on at the Waterfront Place Hotel. Of course, it wasn’t and the remark hasn’t gone over well.ĭemocratic presidential candidate and Vermont socialist Sen. Clinton was approached by a voter about the comment and claimed it was taken out of context. She secured the endorsements of fellow Democrats in the state, including West Virginia Gov.
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The former secretary of state held a series of events last week vowing to develop an economic support package for struggling residents. “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business,” Mrs. Barack Obama, has been trying to walk back comments the New York senator made on CNN in March. Clinton, who won the state with more than 60% of the vote in 2008 against then-Sen. “While I strongly believe we need to combat climate change … let me be clear: We cannot abandon communities that have been dependent on coal and other fossil fuels,” Sen. Sanders has clobbered his rival over anti-coal remarks she made and called for investing $41 billion to rebuild the coal-mining communities and create clean energy jobs. Trump had an enormous lead even before his two rivals dropped out after Indiana. Trump is running essentially unopposed for the first time this cycle in the West Virginia Primary.

Hamilton handed him a white miners’s helmet onstage at the Charleston rally on May 5 (see below).

Hamilton’s group represents 95% of the state’s coal production. “People just like his no-nonsense, take-the-gloves-off attitude,” Chris Hamilton, vice president of the West Virginia Coal Association said. Traditional registered Democrats are flocking to presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, who won endorsements from coal mining groups that have back Democrats in all of the last six elections.
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Registration by party, officials say, can confuse just who exactly is heading to the polls. In 2008, they had less than 66,000 early ballots. According to officials, there have been 100,962 early voting ballots received and 5,252 absentee ballots for a total 106,214 early votes.
