Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has launched a blistering attack on Hillary Clinton’s character and suggested that the Democratic presidential nominee is not mentally fit to be the president.
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A “Washington Post”/ABC News poll at the weekend found Clinton leading among registered voters, with 50pc of support, in the week after the Democratic Party’s convention, where she was formally named the presidential nominee. In a statement ahead of Trump’s speech, her campaign said that his plan would give tax breaks to the wealthy and big companies, and would hurt working families and trigger a recession. Likewise, officials with the pro-Clinton group Priorities USA say they have put its advertising plans there on hold.
Donald Trump is focusing his economic message on boosting jobs and making the country more competitive on a global stage by cutting business taxes, reducing regulations and increasing domestic energy production.
Clinton’s lead resembles the six-point post-convention leads for Barack Obama in 2012 and George W. Bush in 2004, both of whom won their bids for second terms. Trump is getting crushed by the commander in chief test as 57% view Clinton as prepared to be president compared to 36% for Trump. He said the plan was to lower the corporate tax burden and encourage U.S. companies with operations overseas to repatriate profits at a more digestible tax rate.
Clinton will offer her own economic vision in a speech in MI on Thursday.
When third party candidates are included, Clinton leads Trump 45 to 37 percent, with 8 percent supporting Libertarian Gary Johnson and 4 percent for Jill Stein of the Green Party.
Trump backers said voters were just starting to tune into the race for the November 8 election.
Peter Navarro, a University of California-Irvine professor who is the only formal Trump economic adviser with a deep academic background, said one of the problems Detroit has seen from NAFTA has been a movement of auto manufacturing jobs to Mexico, citing Ford and GM recently.
Trump’s most forceful policy-oriented attack centered on Clinton’s support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, using her vote as a USA senator from NY to call her foreign-policy judgment into question.
At a gathering of black and Latino journalists, Clinton, who has been criticized for not taking media questions, was asked about her recent assertion that FBI Director James Comey said she was “truthful” to the public about her emails. “I know all of those of you in the media don’t believe this but you really don’t treat us the same way”, Giuliani said.
The UAW opposes Trump, but WWJ 950’s Jeff Gilbert said union leaders are expected to closely watch the performance, knowing that Trump’s position on trade is likely to draw support from some members.
Kasich, who lost the GOP primary to Trump and shunned the Republican National Convention, tells CNN’s “State of the Union” that four years of Hillary Clinton would mean “total gridlock”. Comey had defended a much narrower set of Clinton’s remarks, made in the context of an interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and effectively confirmed that Clinton had made factually false statements about the classified material being transmitted over her personal email system. “There is certainly every opportunity for Trump to win this election”.
Former US House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Trump backer, told Fox News that the candidate had made mistakes but that Clinton had made the greater error in her explanations of her use of a private server while she was secretary of state from 2009-2013.
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“I’ll take the week”. US Senator Tim Kaine, Clinton’s vice presidential running mate, defended her email answers on NBC’s “Meet the Press”.
