Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton elaborated on her economic growth strategy in MI on Thursday, just days after Republican candidate Donald Trump put forward his own ideas.
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Mrs Clinton made the promises during a speech at a factory in MI.
There was little new in Clinton’s speech, as the tenets of her economic plan haven’t changed much over the course of the a year ago.
Mrs. Clinton’s speech also painted sharply divergent visions of where the country is headed. And in recent weeks, the Clinton campaign has shifted its gaze toward the other side of the aisle: At the Democratic National Convention, multiple speakers spoke wistfully of Ronald Reagan, while anti-Trump Republicans and independents announced that they were “with her” – for non-ideological reasons – in prime time.
“But clearly he doesn’t know the people of MI. He doesn’t see the businesses and the labor unions, the local governments, the clergy – coming together every single day to make things better”.
“He wants America to work for him and his friends at the expense of everyone else”.
“I would say they could be tried there”, Trump said.
“Nothing for communities of color in our cities to overcome barriers of systemic racism”, she went on.
Straying from his trademark bravado, Donald Trump acknowledged Thursday that his presidential campaign is facing challenges and could ultimately fall short – a rare expression of humility by the Republican presidential nominee. Clinton, who has backed many of those deals in the past, sought to address blue-collar worries about her trade views. Some led to factory closures and job losses, she said.
“Our businesses have to be able to compete with other countries, because we’re getting beaten very badly by other countries, whether it’s China or Japan …”
“We’ve really been given a false narrative”, Trump said of his struggles in Utah.
“The answer is to finally make trade work for us, not against us”, she said.
Workers’ anxiety over trade deals has become a central theme in the 2016 election, and Clinton rejected the portrait Trump has painted that she is only pretending not to favor the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a planned deal which she had praised when she was secretary of state in President Barack Obama’s first term but has opposed as a candidate for the presidency.
No one would mistake Hillary Clinton for Bernie Sanders. /Marist poll, with more than 40 percent in a four-way race. “I oppose it now”.
“I oppose it now, I’ll oppose it after the election, and I’ll oppose it as president”, she added.
Hillary Clinton on Friday (Aug 12) released her 2015 tax returns, which showed the Democratic presidential nominee and her husband had US$10.75 million (S$14.5 million) in income that year and paid an effective federal tax rate of 34.2 per cent.
Mr. Trump attempted to reset his campaign on Monday with the economic-policy address in Detroit that advisers had said would modify an existing tax plan that had been criticized as tilted towards the wealthy.
While Trump’s statement could be simply an off-the-cuff remark that was not a complete thought, US media zeroed in on the gaffe, which caused even Trump’s supporters to groan and lament the bombastic businessman’s inability to control his tongue.
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“He would give trillions of dollars to money managers”, Clinton said of Trump’s tax plan. Over the past two years Obama has organized a broad coalition of countries and launched more than 10,000 United States airstrikes to defeat IS. The Estate Tax – which Republicans prefer to call the Death Tax – only affects estates worth more than $5 million, and just 0.2 percent of people who die each year surpass that threshold.
