“The map favors us and, in a way, the dynamics right now favor us”, said Joel Benenson, Clinton’s senior strategist.
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The Clinton campaign is expected to release more years of tax returns this week in an effort to shame Donald Trump into releasing his own.
Ahead of her speech, Trump also called for new infrastructure spending, although he did not lay out a specific proposal.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton spoke today in front of a few hundred people at Futuramic, an aerospace and automotive parts manufacturing company.
Aides billed the speech as the flawless opportunity to respond to Trump because she has already laid out her economic agenda in detail, most recently on a three-day, jobs-focused bus tour through the Rust Belt.
Clinton released eight years of personal income tax returns in 2015.
“We’re going to win so big”, Trump told a roaring crowd one month ago at the Republican National Convention. Trump has said that he’s under an audit by the Internal Revenue Service and won’t release his returns until that audit is concluded – which may not happen before the November 8 election.
Clinton’s running mate, Sen.
Clinton has hit Republican nominee Donald Trump for not releasing his returns.
Clinton’s vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, a Virginia senator, and his wife Anne Holton are set to release the last 10 years of their tax returns as well. “Donald Trump should immediately drop out of the race, and he should be arrested for committing a federal crime”.
Clinton has proposed a large public works project, pledged to roll back tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas, and said she would not raise taxes on the middle class.
Both candidates chose tightly contested MI – specifically, the Detroit area – to make their updated economic pitches. In perhaps the best line of her speech, she said if U.S. Olympians were as fearful as Trump on trade, gymnast Simone Biles and swimmer Michael Phelps “would be cowering in the locker room afraid to come out to compete”. He then said there was no way people would be able to stop a President Clinton from stacking the Supreme Court with anti-gun justices, before adding, “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is – I don’t know”. While the state has not backed a Democrat for president since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Trump himself acknowledged Thursday he is “having a tremendous problem in Utah”.
Following a mostly successful convention and bus tour through economically depressed pockets of OH and Pennsylvania, Clinton is shaving Trump’s lead on the economy, from 10 points in June to 4 points in the most recent NBC poll.
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Later Wednesday, Trump stirred up another fuss by calling President Barack Obama the “founder” of the Islamic State militant group – and Clinton its co-founder. Republicans have seized upon the millions in speaking fees and a tone-deaf comment by Clinton in a 2014 interview that she was “dead broke” after leaving the White House in 2001.
