Today on The BradCast, Bernie Sanders beats front-runner Hillary Clinton once again, this time in the West Virginia Primary. But Exit Polls reveal some bizarre demographics, even as a new national poll now finds Donald Trump surging and tied with Clinton nationally. [Audio link to the show is below.]
Sanders racked up another win on Tuesday, even as his odds for winning the Democratic nomination remain long (if not impossible) against Clinton. But with Trump’s GOP competition now finally out of the way, Exit Polling coming out of the Mountain State last night suggests that many “Democratic” voters there are prepared to vote for Trump in November…even if he’s running against Sanders, oddly enough. So is that new reason for Dems to be worried?
Ninth generation WV native, Head-On Radio Network host, co-founder of the Appalachian Communities Health Emergency Campaign and President of Coal River Mountain Watch Bob Kincaid joins me to try and make sense of the reported results and Exit Polling. We also examine what effect Clinton’s out-of-context remarks about “putting miners and coal companies out of business” may have had on the state’s electorate, as well as on the upcoming primary next week in Kentucky, and even for the general election in key swing coal states like Ohio and Pennsylvania (where another new poll this week found Clinton tied or losing to Trump.)
“The coal issue is a considerable part of this process because you’ve got a lot of people in West Virginia who will clutch at any straw, even though the coal industry doesn’t wield the power it once wielded,” he tells me. “But the openly anti-coal rhetoric that comes from our side, and of which I am a practitioner, puts a lot of people off.”
Kincaid, however, is no fan of Clinton’s, at least when it comes to what he sees as her chances in a head-to-match with Clinton nationally. “I’ve gone on record saying that I fully expect her to lose in November if she’s the nominee. She’s a terrible candidate. She’s an awful campaigner, and — I don’t like saying this, Brad — I want a Democrat in the White House. I’m a grown-up politically. I know that ‘I want a pony’ is not on the ballot. But, she’s a tone-deaf campaigner. She’s got 25 years worth of real and imagined baggage, and a 25-year-old Republican-funded filth machine that runs on 200-proof pure hate, that’s humming along on 64 valves, okay?”
The colorful longtime radio host also goes on to offer a no-uncertain-terms warning to Democrats about the party’s Gubernatorial nominee Jim Justice who, he predicts, will end up endorsing Trump this Fall.
In related news today: New polling shows Trump surging 13 points over the last week and now tied nationally with Clinton. (Not to say ‘we told ya so’, but…well…); Also: New indications that the GOP electorate in North Carolina may now be turning against state Republican lawmakers in the wake of their Big Government, anti-business, anti-LGBT ‘bathroom law’; and, finally, a follow-up on the stupid, recent investigation against black, female cadets at West Point…
President Sanders….period…
HRC is a sinking ship, so take your pick, sooner (at the convention) or later (in November)?….she’s a miserable charade of a candidate being shoved up our ass by a miserable charade of a Democratic Party shot dead, gutted and stuffed by Clinton Taxidermy Specialists LLC – “Delivering Lifelike Trophies to Boardrooms Across America and Beyond Since 1992“….no, no, no she will not be President….and not because of me….because of HER, who she really is, deep down to the bone, and the sickening worldview she embraces….dress her up and script her all you want, she’s a lying sack of hot gas that more and more people are smelling what she’s selling…
She
will not
be
President…
CHEER UP!!….we’re all still donating to Bernie, volunteering for Bernie, phonebanking from home for Bernie, and spreading the good word with EVERYBODY we talk to about Brother B….we can DO THIS goddammit!!!….President Sanders!…
If the DNC manages to hoist Hillary over Bernie, guess what??….she bellies up anyway come November, destroying at long last the transmogrified “Democratic” “Party” as Pres. Trump accomplishes the very same with the moribund RNC….win – win!!….i’ll take chaos over capitulation ANY day….chaos at least bears the possibility of hope…
My birthday is tomorrow and my mom gave me $20 to donate to Sanders.
Thanks mom!
Don’t know much about angels getting wings, but it’s a wonderful life for sure to hear something as terrific as that….tell your mom we’re on the front lines against Potterville, Larry….and enjoy a great birthday!…
As a socialist I’ll take Sanders over the other two, but I’ll take Trump over Clinton — a small price to pay if it avoids world war 3, which I think Clinton is very likely to start. With Trump it’s not clear what he would do — maybe collapse the US, but at this point I can’t say that would be such a terrible thing because most of NATO and the empire would go with it.
Bob Parry sums up objections to Clinton fairly well at https://consortiumnews.com/2016...ad-ideas-kill/ but there are plenty of other authors who make abut the same points, with several recently at Counterpunch.