Clinton criticized Trump for talking about what’s wrong with the country without offering any solutions.
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But Trump has proved to be a shifting target for Clinton on economic policy.
Just hours before her address, Trump unleashed another round of attacks on Democrats, calling Obama the “founder” of the Islamic State militant group – and Clinton, its co-founder.
Clinton alluded to NAFTA on Thursday as she talked about broken promises and previous deals. This week, emails obtained by a conservative group suggest the Clinton Foundation asked the State Department for favors.
‘He’d pay a lower rate than millions of middle class families, ‘ she said. In another, the foundation executive appeared to request special help finding a job for an associate, and he was assured that the right people knew of the potential employee.
Given her record, Clinton is vulnerable on trade.
And Democrats are particularly anxious about fresh Federal Bureau of Investigation concerns that the Russian hackers who penetrated servers at the Democratic National Committee may have also breached private email accounts of many more key members of the party, including those with the Clinton campaign.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco called it an “electronic Watergate”.
“If Team USA was as fearful as Trump, Michael Phelps and Simone Biles would be cowering in the locker room afraid to compete”, Clinton said.
Kaine talks about faith: Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine delivered a sermon-like speech Thursday to the Progressive National Baptist Convention. Stiffing small businesses like Atlantic City, because he refused to pay their bills.
In her remarks, Clinton chided Trump’s companies for making clothing and other products overseas and unveiled a new web site that lists companies making similar products in the United States.
“There is a myth out there that he will stick it to the rich and powerful because somehow he’s really on the side of the little guy”, she said.
“I take this personally”. “Mr. Trump was at 41 percent support and Mrs. Clinton was at 40 percent in a head-to-head matchup with 17 percent undecided, according to the Suffolk University poll of likely voters conducted Monday through Wednesday”, according to the Washington Times, which noted that the state has supported Democrats in six of the last seven presidential elections.
Clinton called it “just a more extreme version of the failed theory of trickle-down economics, with his own addition of outlandish Trumpian ideas that even Republicans reject”.
“I can provide serious, steady leadership that can find common ground and build on it based on hard but respectful bargaining”, she said.
Hoping to keep the pressure up on Trump, Clinton is also planning to release her 2015 tax returns in the coming days.
“Based on what we know from the Trump campaign, he wants America to work for him and his friends, at the expense of everyone else”, she said at a manufacturing company in MI.
“But the answer is not to rant and rave – or to cut ourselves off from the world”, Clinton said.
Clinton plans to tax corporations that move jobs outside of the country, plus make them pay back any tax credits or incentives they had in the past.
Hillary Clinton proposed to make college tuition “free for the middle class” and “debt free for everyone” at a rally in MI on Thursday.
“I will stop any trade deal that kills jobs and holds down wages, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership”.
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The goal of her speech Thursday afternoon at manufacturing company in Warren, Michigan, was to play up her focus on job development, public works projects and tax policy while trying to undercut the Republican nominee’s approach. This leaves supporters of the 12-nation tariff-slashing deal clutching to the thin hope that she does not really mean what she says; but her distinction between “after the election” and “as president” implied that she would not even countenance approval of the TPP by a lame-duck Congress if she wins on November 8.
