Energy is one of the issues dogging Democrats in this midterm election cycle, but apparently no one has let Joe Biden in on that.
Biden was speaking at an event in California this week and talked about a coal plant in Massachusetts which is being converted to produce wind power. He then boasted about plans to close coal plants across the country.
Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, realizing he has been played by Biden, reacted harshly.
Paul Sacca writes at The Blaze:
Joe Biden vows to shut down coal plants ‘all across America,’ Joe Manchin fires back with stern counterattack: ‘It is time he learn a lesson’President Joe Biden vowed to shut down coal plants “all across America” during a speech on Friday. Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin from West Virginia shot back at President Biden and demanded he apologize for his remarks.Biden claimed that coal plants “cost too much money.””So it’s going to become a wind generation,” Biden said at an event in Carlsbad, California. “And all they’re doing is it’s going to save them a hell of a lot of money and using the same transmission line that they transmitted the coal-fired electric on.”Biden proclaimed, “We’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar power.”On Saturday, Manchin fired back at Biden on his plan to shut down coal plants – which would severely impact his home state of West Virginia.“President Biden’s comments are not only outrageous and divorced from reality, they ignore the severe economic pain the American people are feeling because of rising energy costs,” Manchin began his statement.
Here’s the video:
As usual, the White House rushed to ‘clarify’ Biden’s remarks.
The Hill reports:
White House says Biden’s coal comments have been ‘twisted’ after Manchin criticismWhite House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Saturday said President Biden’s comments on the coal industry had been “twisted” after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) earlier in the day criticized the remarks.“The President’s remarks yesterday have been twisted to suggest a meaning that was not intended; he regrets it if anyone hearing these remarks took offense,” Jean-Pierre said in a statement…Jean-Pierre said on Saturday that “President Biden knows that the men and women of coal country built this nation” and emphasized the reduction in unemployment rates in West Virginia, one of the largest coal-producing states in the nation, since Biden took office.
Pennsylvania is also coal country.
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