Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed the Obama administration’s failure to squash the “war on coal” narrative as at least one reason she did so poorly in coal country in the 2016 election.
“The Obama administration was slow to take on this false narrative,” Clinton wrote in her new book “What Happened,” which is her perspective on why she lost to President Donald Trump last year.
Trump won nearly 63 percent of the vote in Kentucky and was just shy of 69 percent of votes in West Virginia. Both states saw coal mining jobs plummet during the Obama years, and many blamed federal energy regulations.
“The most prominent explanation, though an insufficient one on its own, is the so-called war on coal,” Clinton wrote in her book. “Democrats’ long-standing support for environmental regulations that protect clean air and water and seek to limit carbon emissions has been an easy scapegoat for the misfortunes of the coal industry and the communities that have depended on it.” – READ MORE
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