Has Hillary Clinton thrown coal miners in Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia into her “basket of deplorables”?

During a speech some 2,000 miles away in Las Vegas, Bill Clinton used coal miners as a punch line to win votes in battleground Nevada.

“None of us have done enough to help coal country build a new economy,” Clinton said.

“They ought to be mad at everybody, but promising them 50 years ago won’t get the job done.

“She — I was really proud of this — she’s basically the first candidate to propose a serious proposal to get areas that are left out and left behind back in the economic mainstream,” Clinton said.

He went on, “She sent me in the primary down there to those places — they voted for me.

“They wouldn’t today, though, ’cause they’re into their anger now.”

Laughing, he said, “They won’t even admit, some of ’em, that they got health care under the health care law.”

The audience laughed along with him.

“‘Cause their mad — I understand why they’re mad. I get it,” he insisted.