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What Bill Clinton Said about West Virginia in His Convention Speech

Coal miners will not be forgotten if his wife is elected, said former President Bill Clinton.

In his convention speech. Bill Clinton alluded to the angry reception he and his wife received in West Virginia during the primary. Here’s what he said:

“She sent me, in this primary, where she knew we going to lose, to look those coal miners in the eye and say, ‘I’m down here because Hillary sent me to tell you that if you really think you get the economy you had back 50 years ago, have at it, but if she wins, she’s coming back for you to take you on a ride to America’s future.'”

Earlier this year, Hillary Clinton made her infamous remark – which she has since apologized for – that “we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”

Clinton said she misspoke, and promised $30 billion in government aid to struggling coal mining communities.

Manchin Defends Clinton after RNC Criticism

During the first evening of keynote addresses at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland Monday, several speakers called for Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to be imprisoned after a using a private email server during her time as Secretary of State. 

West Virginia’s only Democratic Congressional leader defended Clinton Tuesday.

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin said the rhetoric displayed at the Republican National Convention Monday night “has no place” in politics in the country.

“If you’re a Democrat and you want to blame Republicans, go right ahead. There’s enough blame for the Republicans and if you’re a Republican and you want to blame Democrats, go right ahead,” Manchin said during a stop in Charleston.

“If you’re an American and you want to fix things, then let’s sit down and work through them.”

Manchin will be attending the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia next week as a delegate and will cast his vote for Hillary Clinton-the candidate he’s been backing since early 2015.

When it comes to Clinton’s potential running mate, Manchin said U.S. Senator and former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine is his top choice.

Kaine is reportedly on Clinton’s short list. 

House Speaker Comments on Delegate's Tweet Toward Clinton

House Speaker Tim Armstead has weighed in on a tweet by a member of the House of Delegates that said Hillary Clinton should be publically executed on the Washington Mall.

The tweet by Berkeley County Delegate Michael Folk caused his employer, United Airlines, to suspend him from flying aircraft while it investigates.

In a statement yesterday, Armstead said Folk is not part of the leadership team of the House and his comments are his own.

Armstead says while he and other Republicans have great concern about Clinton’s views particularly about the energy industry, he condemns any calls for violence against her or any other person.

Armstead also says it’s unfortunate that the national campaign has become so emotionally charged and he hopes as the general election approaches that the focus will be on the candidates, their policies and their impact on the state.  

The 270 Project: Try To Predict Who Will Win The Election

Donald Trump has staked his brand on winning. "We will have so much winning," he has said in this campaign, "if I get elected, that you may get bored with…

Donald Trump has staked his brand on winning. “We will have so much winning,” he has said in this campaign, “if I get elected, that you may get bored with winning.” But can he win the presidential election? In a country that has changed rapidly demographically, Trump’s best shot is to drive up turnout among white voters, especially white men. But how likely is that? We at NPR Politics wanted a data-driven, quantitative way to answer the fundamental question of whether Trump can win, or if this is Hillary Clinton’s race to lose — and give readers the power to test it out themselves. There’s perhaps no better way to do that than through demographics. It’s by no means a crystal ball, but how we identify is arguably among the best predictors of how we will vote. So we created The 270 Project, a handy tool where you can adjust voter turnout and margin of victory for five demographic groups — white women, white men, African-Americans, Latinos and others (Asian, Native American, mixed race) — to see what it would take for Trump or Clinton to win. (The project derives its name from the number of electoral votes needed to win the White House — 270.) Give it a shot and see what you come up with.

 

Trump, Sanders Win W.Va. Primary Races

Both candidates who were expected to win in West Virginia Tuesday did — Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders took the state. With no one left to run against,…

Both candidates who were expected to win in West Virginia Tuesday did — Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders took the state. 

With no one left to run against, Trump won the Republican primary in the state by a large margin. A small crowd gathered at Embassy Suites in Charleston to celebrate the victory. Robert Jones, of Charleston, was at the party and said Trump is the candidate the state needs.

“I believe that Trump resonates with the working man and I really like that,” Jones said. “Other than the past couple of years, the Republican party has distanced itself from middle America and I think Trump is the first person that is going to redefine the republican party.”

Things were more up in the air on the Democratic side, where Bernie Sanders was the projected winner of the state primary. Daniel Falsafi was at the Bernie Sanders rally at a bar in downtown Charleston. The college student from South Charleston said Sanders is the man for the working class.

“He does want to help out working people,” Falsafi said. “He wants to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, he wants to help with paid family and medical leave, he wants to help out the working man.”

Sanders took the victory over Hillary Clinton by a safe margin, despite her national delegate lead. 

After 2012 Stunner, Ex-Con Makes Another White House Run

As Donald Trump, Hillary and Bill Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigned in West Virginia this month before thousands of voters, ex-convict Keith Judd slipped into the state unnoticed.

Judd is a Democratic presidential candidate who received 41 percent of the vote in the state’s 2012 primary against President Barack Obama. This time, he wanted to see West Virginia for himself.

With no rallies, Judd spent a quiet week visiting towns in West Virginia before departing Sunday — two days before the primary — for his hometown of Midland, Texas.

He was unable to do much in 2012 because he was in prison. He spent 15 years behind bars for threatening and trying to extort his wife in divorce proceedings and for a parole violation. He was released in 2014.

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