The Democratic nominee’s remarks branded Mr. Trump’s proposal to sharply reduce taxes on so-called pass-through entities, where business income is claimed on individual tax returns, as the “Trump loophole”. She said that according to independent analysis “under my plans, we’ll create about 10.4 million new jobs”.
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Instead, she’ll use her platform at a manufacturing company in Warren, Michigan, to undercut Trump’s approach.
“I can provide serious, steady leadership that can find common ground and build on it based on hard but respectful bargaining”, she said. “I said pro-2A citizens must organize and get out vote to save our Constitution!”
“Words matter, my friends”, Clinton said, addressing supporters at a rally in Iowa on Wednesday. Susan Collins of ME said Tuesday she couldn’t vote for Trump.
“I will stop any trade deal that kills jobs or holds down wages – including the Trans-Pacific Partnership”, Clinton said.
“I’ll oppose it after the election, and I’ll oppose it as president”, she said.
Amid pressure from progressives a year ago, Clinton broke with her own past statements, saying she could not support the deal because of “unanswered questions” and currency manipulation that could possibly affect American jobs. Clinton also set a goal of connecting every household in the country to broadband internet service by 2020, in what would be the end of her four-year term.
She pledged to expand the tax credit for child care and limit those costs to 10 percent of family income. Trump has said he won’t release them until an IRS audit is complete. Her running mate, Sen.
Appearing before a roughly 500-person crowd at Futuramic Tool & Engineering – an advanced manufacturing company that makes components of space ships – Clinton riffed through a list of policy prescriptions, like debt-free and tuition-free college, a five-year, $275-billion infrastructure investment plan, expansion of broadband to all American households by 2020, federal incentives for specific improvements in K-12 education, a “Make It America Campaign” to encourage domestic manufacturing. the list of well-thought-out proposals goes on and on, all backed up with policy papers chock full of information.
But Clinton’s campaign sees it as fertile territory for her to seize on Trump’s vulnerabilities by questioning his commitment to the American economy by noting his history of outsourcing.
She added: “America isn’t afraid to compete”.
But some nervous progressives, who still don’t fully trust Clinton, say the real test of her commitment will come in whom she appoints to her administration if she wins, starting with her transition team.
“She’ll make a speech today and she’ll be talking about what she’s going to do for the country”.
Trump also continued to develop a theme that Clinton lacks stamina and energy.
“Her speeches are so short, though, they don’t last long”. Ten minutes, let’s get out of here.
“If the Donald wanted someone dead, he would have just said it, top Trump backer Rudy Giuliani claimed”, the New York Daily News writes.
“Media desperate to distract from Clinton’s anti-2A stance”, Trump said in a Tweet.
She also hewed closer to Trump’s call for tariffs on worldwide goods brought in from China, Mexico and other nations. And he remembered Fred Trump’s forays into home building.
Trump recalled that his “father would go and he’d pick up the saw dust and he’d pick up the nails”.
“He certainly has at least shifted numerous headlines towards his economic plan, but a lot of attention continues, and likely will continue, to be paid to his temperament”, Dan Mahaffee, an analyst with the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, told Xinhua. Eight of them are women.
After Trump named an all-male group of economic advisers earlier this week, Clinton mocked it as “six guys named Steve”.
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Republican leaders are already facing the possibility Hillary Clinton will win the White House in November.
