Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at Abraham Lincoln High School, in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016.
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USA presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said in a speech at a MI factory on Thursday that her jobs and tax plans would better help middle-class Americans than the plans released earlier this week by Republican rival Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton is set to go after Donald Trump’s economic agenda – aiming to portray her rival’s approach as offering handouts for the rich. His remarks also fuelled widespread concerns about his ability to stay on track. The parents of two of the four Americans killed in the 2012 attack on a US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, have filed a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, calling the former secretary of state directly responsible for the deaths of their sons. “And if you are running to be president or you are president of the United States, words can have tremendous consequences”.
Clinton positioned herself as the candidate who will go to bat for American families and offer “serious, steady leadership. that rises above personal attacks and name calling, not revels in it”. For them, the Second Amendment is about their right to keep arms in order to fight an insurgent war against our own government, should one ever become necessary to keep tyranny at bay. “These Twitter rants and things he does in the media, I definitely think it’s hurting him”.
But former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden told CNN, “If someone else had said that said outside the hall, he’d be in the back of a police wagon now with the Secret Service questioning him”. “And I am sick and exhausted of people who watch roads get potholed; who watch water systems poison children; who don’t stand up and say, we’re going to put America to work building the infrastructure we need for the 21st century”.
Clinton meanwhile launched an open appeal Wednesday to independents and Republicans repulsed by Trump over his string of controversial statements. Some pledged to withhold their endorsement and others backed Clinton.
The IRS has said Trump can release his tax returns even while under audit.
Clinton’s campaign now has a website for Republicans and political independents to sign up to pledge their support, listing 50 prominent Republicans and independents who have endorsed her.
Democrats said such comments were further evidence that Trump was undisciplined and unprepared for the presidency.
Trump has dismissed the defections and criticism as an unsurprising reaction of the so-called Washington elite to his drive to change the status quo.
Trump gleefully broadcast Reuters’ refutation of the CNN article. “Never trust a fudd”, wrote “waltdewalt” on a gun politics page on Reddit last month, suggesting Trump is not as committed to the Second Amendment as he claims.
“It’s just another issue the press has really twisted to make headlines”, Hughey said.
Mr Trump sharply criticised the news media for the way it handled a comment he made in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Tuesday suggesting gun rights supporters could take action against Mrs Clinton. “I don’t like her”, said Smith, a 74-year-old retiree who lives in Clearwater, Florida.
At an appearance in Miami Beach, Florida, hours before Clinton’s speech, Trump said his rival “wants to tax and regulate our economy to death”. But his remarks Tuesday undermined that effort. “He is the founder of ISIS”, Trump said, using a term for IS. “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”, he continued.
A US Secret Service official confirms to CNN that the USSS has spoken to the Trump campaign regarding his Second Amendment comments.
But it’s not a surprise the latest flap springs from a Trump rally, the centerpiece of his campaign.
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Strategists and Trump detractors agreed that it would be hard, if not impossible, to remove Trump from the Republican ticket.
