3rd party votes: 16.2% in 1992, 11.4% in 1996, 5.9% in 2016
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace received 9.8% of the vote in 1968)
Election results/population: Wikipedia
Headline: Daily Kos, 3.23/2025
West Virginia is one of the Trumpiest states in the country, with PresidentDonald Trump winning the state by a whopping 42 percentage points in the 2024 election. So you’d think—having delivered for Trump so big—that they’d be winning all sorts of victories.
And yet …
According to the Des Moines Register, Trump’s plan to revive shipbuilding in the United States by charging massive fees for China-linked ship visits to U.S. ports is causing coal inventory to swell, stoking uncertainty in the already embattled agriculture industry as exporters struggle to find ships to send goods abroad.
As a result, West Virginia coal mines are preparing to lay off miners as unsold coal piles up.
But, but, but … Trump loves coal miners!
“After years of being held captive by Environmental Extremists, Lunatics, Radicals, and Thugs, allowing other Countries, in particular China, to gain tremendous Economic advantage over us by opening up hundreds of all Coal Fire Power Plants, I am authorizing my Administration to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL,” he posted on Truth Social just earlier this week.
Despite what Trump says, coal is a dead industry, and he’s doing his part to drive the final nail in its coffin.
West Virginia's population peaked in 1950
Mighty White. Morgantown is home to West Virginia University.
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