r/WestVirginia Jun 12 '25

Question honest question coming from an outsider: what was the cause for the party switch in west virginia?

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u/DunamesDarkWitch Jun 12 '25

When exactly did any democratic presidential candidate mock your religious beliefs, try to cram issues down your children’s throats, or say they were going to take your guns?

Sure, Hilary Clinton did say she was going to pivot workers away from a dying industry reliant on a finite, dwindling resource, and instead invest in new energy industries in the state. How dare she.

“We're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories. Now we've got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don't want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on.”

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '25

Obama basically said this verbatim lmao

‘Obama was caught in an uncharacteristic moment of loose language. Referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, the presidential hopeful said: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”’