The candidate in the coalfields

Published May 16, 2016 4:02am ET



The picture was worth a thousand words. An AP photo of Hillary Clinton confronted during a West Virginia campaign stop by unemployed coal miner Bo Copley and his wife, holding a picture of their young daughters. Copley, tearful and choked up, managed to ask the presumptive heir to President Obama’s anti-coal policies how she could “come in here and tell us you’re going to be our friend” after promising on CNN two weeks earlier to “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”

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