May 5, 2016 - Bo Copley, who challenged Hillary Clinton on her comments about the coal industry, talked with Neil Cavuto on “Your World" Tuesday about the confrontation.

Copley: I’m not wanting to wait until the general election is over and someone comes in to offer to bring in some kind of industry to our region. I’m going to be out of work for the near future as far as i can see.  And I’m actually anxious to see what someone can bring now. I know we’re focusing on who’s going to be coming into office and what they can bring, but our people are hurting now. We’re not really interested in waiting until someone comes in, we want to know what can be done now

Copley: The current administration has really hand strung us to where the EPA and their regulations among other things, the power plants and other things that use coal, they just made it unaffordable for these places to operate right now, so the administration kind of tied our hands for us.

Cavuto: When you were confronting Mrs. Clinton on this subject, Bo, were you nervous? Were others in the room telling you, hey, Bo, pull back, go easy?

Copley: No, not really. I was a little nervous to start with but I think I speak for a lot of people in our area, we’re people of faith, I put my faith and trust in god and a lot of people had notes prepare. I didn’t have – I didn’t have any notes, I just relied on my faith in god and let him guide me and prayed he would give me the right words for the right time and feel like he did.

Cavuto: When Hillary Clinton talks about making sure she looks after guys like you, if she became president, do you believe that? Do you think she would?

Copley: Well, I hope so. I don’t know about her, in particular, but our people – we put our faith and trust in god, we believe we’re god’s people and we believe god will take care of us. And his ways are not our ways, whether it’s through her or Mr. Trump or Cruz, whoever would be in office, I believe West Virginia will prosper again, whether it’s up to those people or not, it’s up to God. And we believe it’s in his hands. I’m not sure on Mr. Trump either. I’m not 100% convinced as a lot of people in my area are already. I’m not 100% convinced on his genuineness either, but he has really stated he’s for our state and he’s really stated that he’s for coal. So a lot of people from where I’m from are really excited about him.