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Trump’s new problem: His lead on economic issues is gone

The latest national poll has Hillary Clinton only three points up against Donald Trump after several post-Democratic National Convention surveys had her beating her Republican rival by double-digits.

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It’s comments like those that Clinton has seized to try to contrast her “serious, steady leadership” with the more volatile approach she says Trump would take to running the country.

What’s more, polls show more voters give Clinton low marks than high ones.

Trump, a NY businessman, and his lawyers have cited an audit by the Internal Revenue Service as a reason he has refused to release his returns.

Trump has so far declined to release his tax returns, saying that it would be a bad move, since he has been under a routine audit from the IRS.

When asked presidential preference between the two major-party candidates, Millennial voters preferred Clinton, 56-20.

Clinton frequently mentions Trump’s returns as a way of underscoring how his economic plans would benefit his personal interests and questioning whether he’s as wealthy as he claims. Trump would have to recuse himself from involvement in the Trump Organization, his family business, but as an owner he’d still be able to claim profits, along with income from the many projects that bear his name and various partnerships he’s involved with.

Yet Donald Trump’s campaign spokesman insists they believe he has a chance to turn CT red for the first time since 1988, and that’s why he is holding weekend rally there on Saturday.

The Clinton campaign has made it a point to remind the USA that Trump has not released his returns.

Clinton is expected to release her returns in “the coming days, possibly as soon as Friday”, according to ABC News, which cited “a source close” to the nominee.

The Democratic nominee told an invite-only crowd of 500 on Thursday at Futuramic Tool & Engineering in Warren that she planned to create jobs by investing in public infrastructure, offer new tax credits to encourage corporate profit-sharing and paid apprenticeships and crack down on companies that move profits offshore to avoid paying USA taxes.

Along with the taxes, her campaign released a video featuring Republican leaders saying Mr Trump should make his filings public. With that release, Clinton’s aides said 38 years of Clinton tax returns have been available to the press over the course of her career, dating back to 1977. Over the past decade, his household income peaked in 2014, when Kaine and his wife earned more than $314,000 in adjusted gross income.

And Bill Clinton’s consulting business brought in almost $1.7 million. The messages generally fell into one of two categories, Proofpoint said: “surprising election news” about Trump, or emails promising to help you “get rich” or “get smart” like Trump. “I do”, Trump insisted.

In other words, Trump has avoided making choices, while Clinton has made a choice to put government alone in the driver’s seat. Laureate Education paid him $1 million in 2015, for a total of $17.4 million since 2010, when Laureate’s chairman first engaged him.

Ruling: Clinton has never said that.

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The couple’s income plunged previous year. His office said he had “engaged with GEMS students and faculty around the world and assisted the Varkey GEMS Foundation in its efforts to increase access to education to underprivileged children”.

Hillary Clinton revealed her tax return figures while Donald Trump still refuses