A West Virginia Republican senator slammed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Tuesday for her promise to “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia said at the Republican National Convention that Clinton knows as much about coal as she does about “secure email.”
“Hillary Clinton is proudly promising to put them out of work?” Capito said of the coal miners in her state. “Now, we shouldn’t be surprised by this,” she added, “because Hillary Clinton understands coal miners and blue-collar workers about as well as she understands secure email.”
Clinton continues to get flack from constituents over a months-long Department of Justice investigation into her use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state. The backlash against the scandal has been swift and painful for Clinton.
An ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted in early July, for instance, found that 56 percent of pollsters believed that Clinton should have faced criminal charges — and 28 percent said they are less likely to vote for Clinton as a result of the scandal.
Clinton received a tongue-lashing in March after telling a crowd in Ohio that she’s “going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business,” which was recorded and uploaded on Youtube by America Rising, a conservative political action committee.
The former secretary of state said, “we don’t want to forget those people” in the coal industry who will lose their jobs as a result of Clinton’s policies. “And now we’ve got to move away from coal,” Clinton added.
Capito said that Clinton’s anti-coal position was in line with the rest of the Democratic Party, including President Barack Obama himself. In 2008, then-candidate Obama said he planned to bankrupt the coal industry.
Clinton “wants to put thousands more Americans out of work,” Capito said. “A day in the life of a coal miner and a day in the life of Hillary Clinton could not be more different.”
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