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Little bit of time ive spent talking to these folks in kentucky, ohio, and elsewhere, it is not just the 50,000 coal miners. it is, j.d., what coal mining represented, as the ability to work a 40, 50-hour workweek and provide for your family. so it touches a lot more people than just those that are directly employed. that said, when i was in beattiville not that long ago after the election, a woman named donna kumer came to me, and she said, the coal trucks are already out. she felt more hope th...

That ceremony, you are going back to work. in kentucky, a woman named donna kumer, who manages a gas station, told us after the election the coal trucks are out. so, here are some facts. >> okay, coal jobs in kentucky alone have fallen 64% since the end of 2011, u.s. coal jobs have fallen 50% since the end of 2011, and a driving reason for this is that electricity in the united states, more of it came from natural gas than coal. the amount of coal used to produce electricity in the u.s. has fall...

Unconditional war on poverty in america. >> reporter: but for decades, people here have struggled, more and more as their factories have shuttered and their coal mines have closed. now, though, there is a sense of hope that you can feel across this town, something many here have not felt for a long time. >> a lot of people are happy, some even ecstatic that we now can say "president trump." >> reporter: president trump won more than 80% of the vote here. >> everybody was excited. >> someone told...

I mean, some even ecstatic that we now can say president trump. >> reporter: president trump won more than 80% of the vote here. >> everybody was excited. someone told me this morning that in eastern kentucky, that the coal trucks are already out and about. >> reporter: donna kumer has been running this gas station for about a decade and knows about everybody in town. do you feel hopeful after the election? >> absolutely. hes already done more in a week than obama did in eight years. >> reporter...