He laid out more substance on his economic plans than ever before and made a significant move toward conservative orthodoxy on tax policy in an apparent gesture to Ryan, the GOP House speaker with whom he feuded last week.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Windham, N.H.
He did spell out proposed tax brackets and called for greater child care deductions for families.
Though Trump argues his “America First” policies will return the economy to the boom era of a half-century ago, his vision sidesteps massive changes that have since occurred in the global economy. She is expected to speak to the Detroit Economic Club on Thursday.
Delivering his speech from a teleprompter, Trump was interrupted repeatedly by protesters who stood on chairs and shouted at him before being pulled out of the room by security guards.
Trump is borrowing a page from a Republican playbook, after all, that dates back to allegations against President Bill Clinton and, of course, claims that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya and actually is Muslim.
“I had hoped that we would see a “new” Donald Trump as a general-election candidate – one who would focus on jobs and the economy, tone down his rhetoric, develop more thoughtful policies and, yes, apologize for ill-tempered rants”, she wrote in Monday’s column.
Republicans inside and outside of Trump’s campaign have implored him to shift the conversation back to Democrat Clinton’s perceived shortcomings. But at the very least, he has offered congressional GOPers a few handy devices to justify refusing to work with her come January. “Hillary Clinton short-circuited again, to use a now-famous term, when she accidentally told the truth and said that she wanted to raise taxes on the middle class”, Trump said in his speech, to much applause from the crowd. He said he wants to “jump-start America” and added, “It won’t even be that hard”.
“His tax plans would give super-big tax breaks to large corporations and the really wealthy”, Clinton said, suggesting they would push the country into another recession.
At an event in Florida, Clinton announced her campaign had received 6.2 million contributions from more than 2 million individual donors. She also stressed her commitment to small businesses, asking “would you rather have a president who says you’re fired or you’re hired?”
It also raised doubts about how numerous GOP’s foreign policy elite would agree to fill diplomatic, defense and intelligence posts should Trump win in November.
He vowed to impose a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations and to establish new provisions to help working parents deal with childcare costs, a subject that has generally been anathema to Republican orthodoxy.
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Gregory Koger, a professor of political science at the University of Miami, speculated that a Trump loss would be just the beginning of an internal GOP debate over whether his candidacy was a fluke or a sign of a deeper issues in the party.
