Two days after Donald Trump was in OH to lay out his foreign policy plan, Clinton touted her economic proposal at Marshall High School in Cleveland and criticized Trump’s plan to repeal the estate tax because the $4 billion that the Republican nominee would receive could be put to better use helping Ohioans.
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Meanwhile, Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto has offered to meet Mr Trump, months after comparing the Republican presidential candidate to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
The news, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes as opinion surveys show Trump trailing Clinton nationally and in a host of key battleground states following a hard campaign stretch that saw him insulting the Muslim parents of a soldier who died in Iraq and temporarily refraining from endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan, who was involved in a primary in his home state of Wisconsin. “He has not been good to the police, simply, and the police are not big fans of his”, Trump said. “Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and it will never be accepted in a Trump administration”.
“Now he’s accusing her of bigoted remarks – we think the American people will know which candidate is guilty of the charge”.
“The Democratic Party has failed and betrayed the African-American community”, Trump told supporters in West Bend, Wis., 45 minutes outside Milwaukee. “Hillary Clinton-backed policies are responsible for the problems in the inner cities today, and a vote for her is a vote for another generation of poverty, high crime and lost opportunities”.
“Those peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society … share directly in the responsibility for the unrest in Milwaukee”, Trump said.
The shooting of Smith was likely justified, Trump argued in an interview with Fox News yesterday morning. “The gun was pointed at his [a police officer’s] head supposedly ready to be fired”, said Trump. Who can have a problem with that?
The real estate mogul accused Clinton of setting herself “against the police” and called for more law enforcement officers in local communities, vowing to “break up the gangs, the cartels, and criminal syndicates terrorizing our neighborhoods”. “If it is true, then people shouldn’t be rioting”.
Officials from the Office of Director of National Intelligence are expected to give Trump a briefing on national security issues this week, an adviser to Trump and a source familiar with the matter said yesterday.
The poll found that Trump leads Clinton 47 percent to 36 percent in the state.
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Republican Trump has declined in the poll from a peak of 49.18 percent on July 24, days after the GOP convention.
