Trump sought to do just that by using an economic policy speech in Detroit on Monday to correct a series of missteps that included a prolonged clash with the parents of a fallen Muslim American soldier.
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Trump has been losing ground in preference polls and alienating prominent Republicans since he officially clinched the nomination at last month’s Republican National Convention, The Associated Press reported yesterday.
Donald Trump is showing something he rarely reveals on the campaign trail: his sentimental side.
They will include information like Clinton and Kaine’s income, charitable giving, and tax rate for the year.
Clinton’s address in Warren built on two back-to-back speeches she made on the economy back in June, when she laid out five economic goals for her presidency. The source spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday to discuss the plans in advance. Priebus reinforced a longstanding plea to Trump to stay on message-a goal that remained elusive more than a week a later as Trump’s economic speech was quickly drowned out by comments viewed by critics as promoting political violence. Naturally, his campaign argues that this is a rallying call to his Second Amendment friends to come out and vote… even though, unquestionably, the context is if Hillary wins (as Kevin Drum correctly points out).
Yet, there’s much to applaud in her vision, including plans to help families, raise the minimum wage, although less than in New York State, and tax multi-millionaires and corporations that move their headquarters overseas. She wants to win the White House and give Democrats back control of Congress. Donald Trump is imploding on a daily basis.
The fact that Trump won’t release his taxes has raised questions about the actual size of his fortune and some of his businesses connections.
Asked in an interview with CNBC Thursday whether it was appropriate for him to call the sitting president of the United States the founder of a terrorist organization that wants to kill Americans, Trump doubled down on his accusation.
Both candidates chose tightly contested MI – specifically, the Detroit area – to make their updated economic pitches. The former manufacturing powerhouse has been hard hit by the decline of the automobile industry and the real estate market.
Trump’s campaign, however, responded in another communique in which communications director Jason Miller said the mogul was referring to the “power of unification” in his remarks, adding that “Second Amendment people have incredible spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power”. At a rally Tuesday, Trump falsely said his Democratic rival wanted to revoke the right to gun ownership.
The latest dust up was about his suggestion, verbalized in only the snarky manner in which the carnival barker speaks, that proponents of the Second Amendment could stop Hillary Clinton from appointing judges to the U.S. Supreme Court, who he declared would take away gun rights. Trump insisted he was never advocating violence against Clinton.
Clinton said it was one more example of words that could have “tremendous consequences”.
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The Secret Service’s communications director Cathy Milhoan has not confirmed the conversations between the campaign and the Secret Service, but said in a statement on Tuesday said that “the U.S. Secret Service is aware of Mr. Trump’s comments”.
