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To Corner Trump on Finances, Clinton Releases Tax Returns

Trump later said he meant that gun-rights supporters wield political clout.

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During a Detroit speech Thursday that compared Trump’s economic proposals to her own, Clinton sought to be the antithesis of flashy with her familiar embrace of better national roads and bridges (and the construction jobs created), along with what she called her “serious, steady leadership”.

“He’s offered no credible plans to address what working families are up against today”, Ms Clinton said in Warren, Michigan, shortly after touring Futuramic, a hangar-like, high-tech factory that makes parts for the aerospace industry.

Donald Trump is urging former Republican rivals to “get over it” and support him for president.

“I think we should strengthen (basic regulations) so Wall Street can never wreck Main Street again”, she said.

On the other hand, she alleged Trump is temperamentally unfit to lead and would tear the country apart with his alleged unsafe ideas, divisive rhetoric, and history of harming hard-working Americans.

Democrat Hillary Clinton’s lead over Trump in national polls has widened in recent days, while a growing number of fellow Republicans have declared they won’t support their own party’s nominee. Asked specifically about USA citizens, Trump said he didn’t like that President Barack Obama and others wanted to try them in traditional courts rather than military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. They earned $313,441, and paid $63,626 in federal income taxes.

“You care very deeply about the 270th electoral vote, but there are also important reasons to care about winning big”, said Geoff Garin, a pollster for Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign who now advises the pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA Action.

Clinton’s campaign has cried foul and accused Trump of mimicking Russian President Vladimir Putin’s talking points, and the Democratic Party had asked for an apology. All I do is tell the truth.

“All I have to do is stop funding the Republican Party”, he said in a Fox News interview.

Throughout his presidential bid, the Republican nominee has used controversy to draw attention back to his campaign.

The Clintons made $10.7 million in total income, but reported an adjusted gross income of $10.6 million due to a self-employment tax deduction. Trump has not spent a dime on TV ads. It’s a claim that Trump repeated at least a dozen times in three cities since debuting the attack-line Wednesday during a rally outside Fort Lauderdale.

“His inability to put anything real on the ground in battleground states is campaign malpractice”, Bird said. “Donald Trump must lose this election”.

The GOP candidate’s penchant for attracting media attention, not all of it planned or positive, favored Clinton this week by overshadowing damaging reports describing email evidence of a Clinton Foundation donor request posed to then-State Department aides.

The founder of the Islamic State group was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qaida in Iraq who was killed in a USA airstrike in 2006.

Her vice presidential running mate, Tim Kaine, also released his tax returns Friday for the years 2006-2015.

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David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, was also struck by how emphatic Clinton was in her opposition to the TPP – and how she didn’t stick up for the positive side of trade.

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton campaigns with vice presidential candidate Senator Tim Kaine