{"id":48535,"date":"2016-09-10T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=48535"},"modified":"2016-09-10T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T01:54:00","slug":"bill-clinton-mocks-the-coal-people-in-west-virginia-kentucky-for-supporting-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=48535","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton Mocks \u2018The Coal People\u2019 In West Virginia, Kentucky For Supporting Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->The Burning Platform<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Homewood, PA on Friday, Bill Clinton criticized the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blacksmithing-and-Heating-Coal-25lbs\/dp\/B00ZD304IC\/\" target=\"_blank\">coal people<\/a>\u201d in West Virginia\u00a0for supporting Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IyX4xa4Cn9w?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe all know how [Hillary\u2019s]\u00a0opponent has done well down in West Virginia and eastern Kentucky,\u201d\u00a0the former president told the crowd at the Greater Pittsburgh Coliseum.\u00a0\u201cThe coal people don\u2019t like any of us [Democrats] anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton added that \u201cthey all voted for me. I won twice, and they did well.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5218705\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5218705 below-entry-meta\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GettyImages-599737468.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GettyImages-599737468.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GettyImages-599737468-132x120.jpg 132w, http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GettyImages-599737468-768x701.jpg 768w, http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GettyImages-599737468-620x566.jpg 620w\" alt=\"Bill Clinton speaks at the Community Family Life Recreation Center at Lyon Park on September 6, 2016 in Durham, North Carolina (Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"934\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Clinton speaks at the Community Family Life Recreation Center at Lyon Park on September 6, 2016 in Durham, North Carolina (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey blame the president when the sun doesn\u2019t\u00a0come up in the morning now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since Clinton left office, West Virginia has overwhelmingly swung red.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, Clinton won 51.5 percent of the state\u2019s popular vote, yet Barack Obama only carried\u00a035.5 percent in the last election.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky has seen similar trends in recent elections, with Clinton earning 45.8 percent in 1996 and Obama earning 37.8 percent in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/2016\/09\/10\/bill-clinton-mocks-the-coal-people-in-west-virginia-kentucky-for-supporting-trump\/\">http:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/2016\/09\/10\/bill-clinton-mocks-the-coal-people-in-west-virginia-kentucky-for-supporting-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}