Coal miner who confronted Clinton: ‘I will be praying for the winner’
“Regardless of who wins tonight, I will be praying for the winner,” Bo Copley told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric and a panel of guests during Yahoo’s Tuesday election-night coverage. “We’ve moved far away from God in our country, for the most part. I think our foundation on God is what made our country great to start with.”
Copley, an unemployed coal miner from West Virginia, became one of Yahoo’s 16 people who influenced the 2016 election when he confronted Hillary Clinton during a West Virginia campaign stop over remarks she had made during a CNN forum. “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business,” Clinton said in May.
Though he cast his vote for Trump, Copley, an evangelical Christian, admitted to Couric and her panel that he was initially hesitant to do so based on Trump’s less-than-wholesome rhetoric and actions.
“We’re not electing religious leaders. Neither one of these two people are perfect. Far from it,” he said. “Neither one of these two people are godly people, and it just came down to you have to make a choice: Who more closely aligns with God’s word than the other.
“God can use unjust people to do his will. He has throughout time,” Copley said. “Whoever wins tonight, he can use them the same way.”
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