Coal Miners' Union Tells Trump to Move On
Support from coal miners helped Trump win the presidency four years ago. Now, the leader of the nation’s top mining union is calling on Trump to “move on,” warning that efforts to challenge vote counts and pressure state elections officials are a “threat to our entire form of government and the American way of life.”
Trump’s campaign is on a path to subvert “the very foundation of what actually does make America great -- government of, by and for the people,” United Mine Workers of America International President Cecil E. Roberts said in a statement issued Friday.
“The cockamamie notion that there was some plot launched in a failed state in South America that somehow affected the count of millions of voters is just absurd,” Roberts said. “Whether you like the outcome or not, the American people have spoken, and their will must now be placed ahead of everything else.”
The union, which represents some 80,000 mine workers, did not endorse a presidential candidate this year. The statement comes as more right-leaning business and interest groups begin urging Trump to concede the race.
-- Jennifer A. Dlouhy
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