He also outlined more economic proposals likely to resonate with conservative USA voters, but have negative effects overseas.
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But his speech was interrupted more than 10 times by a series of shouting protesters, who were escorted out of the hall by security officials.
The Republican presidential nominee also called for a temporary moratorium on new agency regulations and would seek to roll back regulations that reduce employment.
Characteristically short on details, Trump said little about how he would equip American workers to succeed, nor about how returning manufacturing to the US could prove costly for American consumers.
“American workers have paid taxes their whole lives, and they should not be taxed again at death – it’s just plain wrong”, Trump said.
Anti-Trump Republicans just don’t want to give their nominee a break.
As he tried to pivot away from recent controversy about his candidacy, Trump portrayed Clinton as the “nominee from yesterday”.
Clinton is supported by 50 percent of likely voters to Trump’s 37 percent, with Libertarian Gary Johnson getting 7 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein 2 percent in the poll released Monday.
Trump showed some message discipline, as he kept his cool. “Let’s see, he’s got three Wall Street money managers, an oil baron, a former chief economist at one of the big banks at the heart of the financial crisis, he’s got six men named Steve – and they all care about the same things he does, about how to avoid paying their fair share”, she said.
“I have said throughout this campaign I am not going to raise the taxes on the middle class, but with your help we are going to raise it on the wealthy”, Clinton said at a Monday rally in the battleground state of Florida.
Sen. Susan Collins, one of the most moderate Republicans in the Senate, said Monday she will not be voting for Donald Trump for president.
In rejecting Trump, Collins joins notable Republican congressmen, including Sen.
Larry Mishel of the center-left Economic Policy Institute said Trump didn’t offer anything new in his speech, especially when it comes to issues like trade. Among them were Eric Edelman, a national security adviser to then-Vice President Richard B. Cheney, and Bellinger, who worked closely with Rice when she was secretary of state and when she was on the NSC.
Signing on to the letter, first reported by the New York Times, former director of the CIA, Michael Hayden, former Homeland Security secretaries Michael Chertoff and Tom Ridge, and the former Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte.
In a damning open letter signed by several prominent Republicans who have served in senior national security and/or foreign policy positions, Trump was described as “lacking self-control and acting impetuously”.
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