In addition, her running mate, Sen.
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In contrast, at a rally in Abingdon, Virginia, Republican nominee Donald Trump focused on coal, calling the 2016 election “the last shot” for miners. Trump has called for tariffs on imports and wants to lower individual tax rates to 10, 20 and 25% and the corporate tax rate to 15%.
Clinton, who frequently boasts about her numerous policy plans, didn’t offer any new, major ideas to improve the country’s economy in her afternoon address.
She is scheduled to give the speech sometime after 1:15 p.m. ET in Warren, Mich.
In all, the Clintons have made their tax returns public for every year dating back to 1977.
Clinton is also planning to release her 2015 tax returns in the coming days, as she seeks to keep the pressure on Trump, who has not provided his.
Clinton also addressed trade, an issue on which Trump has criticized her for supporting deals that cost American jobs.
“Because when you’re running for president and you become the nominee, that’s kind of expected”, Clinton said. “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is I don’t know”. Trump has said that he will not release his tax returns because they are being audited.
“Given the alternative of “carpet bombing” and ‘blow them off the face of the Earth, ‘ the incredibly risky rhetoric … of Donald Trump, they are more comfortable with Hillary Clinton”, Democratic strategist Penny Lee said of progressive voters. She said that according to independent analysis “under my plans, we’ll create about 10.4 million new jobs”. The source spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the plans in advance.
Clinton once called the TPP the “gold standard” of trade deals when she served as Obama’s secretary of state but announced her opposition to the deal past year, saying it did not meet her standard for creating jobs, raising wages and protecting national security.
But so far, with Trump being an unconventional candidate, he’s bucked this tradition.
That claim, rated “mostly false” by Politifact, didn’t take into account the two large real estate assets – the Clintons’ houses in NY and Washington, D.C. – and the couple’s earning potential from Bill Clinton being a former president, the website noted.
“No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS”, Trump said.
At the same time, Trump has, at times, tried to run to Clinton’s left on foreign policy.
Varad Mehta, a Pennsylvania-based historian and political analyst who is skeptical of Trump’s chances in the state, said the NY businessman has become “toxic” in the Philadelphia area and has “lost ground across the state since the convention”.
Clinton blasted Trump on Wednesday, telling a crowd in Iowa that Trump’s “casual inciting of violence” showed he was unfit to be president.
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Clinton’s campaign stepped up efforts to win over Republicans and independents, launching a group that aims to use a wave of almost 50 recent endorsements of Clinton by high-profile Republicans and independents to persuade voters to cross party lines.
