Senator Joe Manchin (D), who is up for a 2018
re-election, claimed that it "would not be wise" for H. Clinton to
campaign for him within his home state of W. Virginia.
Manchin was asked within an interview which aired last
Sunday if he was a "dead man walking" following Trump winning W.
Virginia by a broad margin within the presidential contest of 2016.
He replied, "I do not think so," and listed
off his previous political posts within the state and said of himself, "I
am just W. Virginia, period. It is not Republican, Democrat to me."
Asked if he would like Hillary to campaign for him,
Joe instantly derided the idea.
He replied that "It would not be wise for her to
come to W. Virginia. It would not be a good thing for me or for her.”
Joe maintained that he and the Clintons are friendly,
yet indicated that statements Clinton made regarding coal country, where W.
Virginia is the core, within the campaign of 2016 were irreconcilable with his
political prospects within the state.
Joe said her statements were ‘harmful and hard to say
or justify. Hillary made a huge mistake and it wasn’t right.’
Clinton, in March of 2016, stated that ‘we will put lots
of coal companies and coal miners out of business’ if she was awarded the
presidency. Hillary, who pitched a $30 billion plan to revitalize the area
which was hemorrhaging thousands of mining vocations by assisting it in
transitioning to renewable energy development, later on stated that her comment
was a "misstatement" following being confronted by a coal miner who
was laid off at a W. Virginia campaign stop.
During her campaign, Joe campaigned for and supported
Clinton, yet stated at that time her comments were "horrible."
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