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<\/a><\/p>\nAnd there beneath the picture is the tag line:<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s Trying to Destroy West Virginia Jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n
No, this is not an ad for Shelley Moore Capito, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n
No, this is not an ad for Alex Mooney, the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in West Virginia\u2019s Second Congressional district.<\/p>\n
In West Virginia, the President of the United States is front and center, even at the local level.<\/p>\n
In a tight race for a West Virginia Senate seat (District 15, Morgan, Berkeley, Hampshire and Mineral counties), the Republican candidate, Charles Trump is not going after the incumbent, the Democrat, Donald Cookman.<\/p>\n He\u2019s going after the President of the United States, Barack Obama.<\/p>\n According to Trump, it\u2019s not low natural gas prices or competition from cheap foreign coal or pressure from conservation and the renewable energy industry that is destroying West Virginia coal jobs.<\/p>\n No, it\u2019s President Obama who is destroying West Virginia jobs.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s Charles Trump who is \u201cfighting to save them,\u201d according to the brochure, which arrived in voters\u2019 mailboxes today.<\/p>\n \u201cJobs are leaving West Virginia,\u201d Trump says in his brochure. \u201cLiberals in Washington and even some local Democrats are pushing them out with crushing government regulations and higher taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe can fix this. Charles Trump is a strong, conservative leader we need to bring West Virginia back,\u201d Trump says.<\/p>\n At least in Morgan County, Trump has a reputation as a moderate centrist.<\/p>\n But in recent weeks he\u2019s been tacking rightward.<\/p>\n Last month, he spoke to a right leaning crowd at a Tea Party meeting in Romney.<\/a><\/p>\n And now in his newest brochure going head on against liberals and President Obama.<\/p>\n Trump has apparently made a calculation that the way to beat Cookman is to take a right turn.<\/p>\n And right turn he has taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the cover of the brochure is a picture of the President of the United States. The President is sitting thoughtfully, hand on face. And there beneath the picture is the tag line: \u201cHe\u2019s Trying to Destroy West Virginia Jobs.\u201d … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n