Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump scored an easy win in West Virginia’s primary on Tuesday night, according to projections from CNN and Fox.
Trump made several stops in the Mountain State, where he has campaigned on bringing coal-mining jobs back to boost the faltering economy. The West Virginia Coal Association endorsed Trump last week after he vowed to get miners in the state “back to work” and make them “proud again to be miners” in a victory speech following his sweep of the Indiana primary.
West Virginia lost some 7,000 coal mining jobs between late 2011 and June 2015 alone, according to West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
After Trump’s remaining opponents, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), dropped out of the race following the Indiana primary, the billionaire mogul seemed so confident in his position as the presumptive nominee that he actually urged West Virginia voters to skip out on Tuesday’s vote.
“Save your vote for the general election, okay?” Trump told a crowd of 13,000 in Charleston, according to The Washington Post. “Forget this one. The primary is gone.”
West Virginia voters appeared not to have heeded Trump’s request.
Gah. Does this mean he’s still the presumptive candidate? Fuck. I’m starting to really hate that word.
And I’d also like to remind West Virginia’s GOP voters this year’s General Election for GOP voters (only, because it’s your special day, set aside for you only) will be held on Friday, November 11th. Mark your calendars, West Virginia GOP voters. Friday, November 11th, 2016 – it’s very important you show up to your polling place on that day! (Oh, and bring your West Virginia ID with you!)
Now the Trumpsters have their own beer. 'Murkuh!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/budweiser-rebrands-itself-as-america-for-the-summer-151207717.html
West Virginia: Final Results:
Trump 5%
Cruz 1%
Whatever’s best for the frickin’ coal industry: 94%
(And fuck Tweety Matthews for having Ann ‘Adams Apple’ Coulter on his panel. (That “woman” better stay out of North Carolina…just sayin’!)
And next comes the followers, pundits/blowhards/CNN/MSNBC…blah, blah,blah, ad infinitum …analysis of the Democrats’ primary results: