“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.
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“I oppose it now, I’ll oppose it after the election, and I’ll oppose it as President”, she said, while also noting that the US should not cut itself off from the rest of the world. Among young Sanders supporters, “much of that backing [for Clinton] is grudging, with turnout an open question and support for third-party candidates posing a potential risk to Clinton”, writes Sofi Sinozich of ABC News, which released a poll on young voters Thursday. Tax returns filed by the Clintons have been made public, in some form, for every year back to 1977.
She said she would seek to create an “infrastructure bank” and use private funding to complement public spending.
“But the answer is not to rant and rave – or to cut ourselves off from the world”, Clinton said.
“I will stop any trade deal that kills jobs or holds down wages, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership”, she stated.
Steve King, Iowa’s conservative congressman from northwest Iowa, had kind words Thursday for both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Clinton and Trump have spent less time talking about the service jobs performed by the vast majority of low-wage workers. “I am determined that we’re going to build more and we’re going to be able to create more businesses and more jobs”, Clinton said. Instead, its profits are passed along to its shareholders and partners, who then report them on their individual tax returns. “America isn’t afraid to compete”.
Clinton expanded on numerous same ideas of her campaign, including making public college tuition free for middle class families, forcing large corporations to pay a bigger share in taxes and penalize the ones who move jobs overseas, and encouraging companies to share profits with their workers. One release was headlined with a peculiar pejorative, coming from a Republican nominee, calling Clinton a “trickle-down globalist”. “I oppose it now, I’ll oppose it after the election, and I’ll oppose it as president”.
As Trump’s poll numbers have flagged in the wake of the July conventions and a new wave of Republicans have defected from his campaign, the real estate mogul has taken a newly conciliatory approach towards a potential loss in November. Clinton maintained that she would appoint a chief trade prosecutor and triple the number of enforcement officers.
In reinforcing her recent leftward shift, Clinton seemed to be trying to energize the significant segment of the Democratic electorate that backed Senator Sanders in the primaries.
However, in the critical State of Florida, which has 29 electoral college votes, the race is still tight with Clinton leading by five percentage points.
Seeking common ground with blue-collar workers who have been attracted to Trump, Clinton frequently mentions his 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. She drew laughter and applause for accusing Trump of offering an “even more extreme version of the failed theory of trickle-down economics, with the addition of his own unique Trumpian spin – outlandish ideas that even many Republicans reject”. He publicly named his economic advisers last week, which Ms Clinton mocked as “six guys named Steve”.
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But what we can conclude from Trump’s never-ending stream of untruths, exaggerations, and lies is that this is a man who cannot be trusted. New members included roofing billionaire Diane Hendricks, investor Carla Sands and hedge funder Anthony Scaramucci.
