Fifty prominent Republican national security officials, including a former Central Intelligence Agency director, on Monday called party nominee Donald Trump unqualified to lead the country and said he would be “the most reckless president in American history”.
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Trump proposed a number of reforms but offered no specifics for how he would achieve them or why they would result in a wealthier, more prosperous country.
Trump’s plans also include proposing a 15 percent corporate tax rate, an idea that is on his website. Its benefit would be limited to high-net-worth families like Trump’s, with estates greater than $5.45 million, which are the only ones taxed under current law. The statement said many Americans were frustrated with the federal government’s failure to solve domestic and global problems. Then he ad-libbed, “It can be done”.
Trump also will propose stronger protections for American intellectual property and a temporary moratorium on new regulations, the aide said. But Trump provided no details – and there are limits to what the federal government alone can do. She is expected to make a speech on economic issues on Thursday.
“These insiders – along with Hillary Clinton – are the owners of the disastrous decisions to invade Iraq, allow Americans to die in Benghazi, and they are the ones who allowed the rise of ISIS”, Trump blasted.
Susan Collins announced she would not vote for Donald Trump on Monday, joining the few other Republican senators to repudiate the party’s nominee for president. She has questioned his commitment to creating U.S.jobs, given the history of outsourcing at his companies.
Trump’s rough ride last week, plus a boost in support for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton after she accepted her party’s nomination at its Philadelphia convention, has taken its toll on him.
NBC News/Survey Monkey conducted its latest sampling of 11,480 adults who say they are registered to vote via online interviews August 1-7.
“The skyscrapers went up in Beijing, and in many other cities around the world, while factories and neighborhoods crumbled in Detroit”, he said.
But in interviews with top Republicans in Washington, several privately told CNN that there’s not much they can do if Trump loses in each of the battleground states by 10 points or more. The economy and national security – those are the two baskets he should be peddling for the next 90 days, ” Carney said. He continues to do well – 53% to 31% – with that voting bloc in the state, according to a poll released earlier this week by Franklin and Marshall.
“Is there anything different today than yesterday?”
“None of us will vote for Donald Trump”, the officials wrote. “We really wanted to focus on the character, temperament and judgment that we have seen are required of good presidents”, Bellinger said. “It is a campaign that exists on television and on Twitter but nowhere else”.
Although he talks with the help of a teleprompter now, just like those career politicians he hates, Monday’s economic speech was proof that Trump hasn’t changed much during his fourteen months as a candidate. “When we do that, we’re comfortable that we can get the agenda and the narrative of the campaign back on where it belongs, which is comparing the tepid economy under Obama and Clinton, versus the kind of growth economy that Mr. Trump wants to build”, he said.
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Ms. Clinton is focusing on jobs and the economy at campaign events. This is a way for professionals to be paid as a consultant and claim income as pass-through business income. Child care is one of the largest expenses a family can incur – a study from the liberal Economic Policy Institute this year found day care costs more than college in 23 of 50 states. But poor people often don’t make enough money to pay federal income taxes in the first place, making that deduction largely irrelevant to their bottom lines.
