“We as a community, collectively, are so desperate to see some sort of change that when someone comes along, and says, ‘I'm going to make coal great again,’ we desperately cling to that with a death grip,” says Pastor Brad Davis, who leads congregations in McDowell County, West Virginia. For decades, McDowell County voted Democratic – backing Barack Obama in 2008 and Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary. In the last three presidential elections, President Trump won the county, which also had the lowest voter participation rate in the state. #publicpolicy #uspolitics #westvirginia #voters #coal