Days after rebuking Trump for insinuating Somali refugees in ME were risky, Collins said late Monday she’d thought “long and hard” about whether she was obligated to support the GOP nominee and decided she could not.
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“Some people will clearly endorse her, others will never endorse her, but everyone was united in their belief that Donald Trump is not qualified”.
“None of us will vote for Donald Trump”, the Times quoted from the letter, a copy of which accompanied the story and which the newspaper said, notes later that many Americans “have doubts about Hillary Clinton, as do many of us”.
And from the Washington Post: “Seeking to put the most hard stretch of his campaign behind him, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used a major economic speech Monday to reach out to two voting blocs that remain critical to his faltering chances of winning in November: traditional fiscal conservatives and disaffected blue-collar workers”.
Also among those who signed the letter were John Negroponte, the first director of national intelligence and later deputy secretary of state; Robert Zoellick, who was also a former deputy secretary of state and former president of the World Bank; and two former secretaries of homeland security, Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff.
Trump also revisited his opposition to current trade deals, including his plan to renegotiate the NAFTA trade agreement with Canada and Mexico. “At the same time, he persistently compliments our adversaries and threatens our allies and friends. As a result of recent Obama-EPA actions, coal-fired plants across MI have either shut down entirely, or undergone expensive conversions, making them non-competitive in many cases”, Trump added. Abortion politics played a central role in the impasse.
While Trump is delivering his speech, Clinton will be in Florida talking about jobs. In contrast, 61% of those surveyed believe Clinton does have the right temperament to serve. Reading from teleprompter, and holding his emotions in check during more than a dozen interruptions from protestors, Trump proposed major tax cuts and huge investments in infrastructure. He had previously said he would drop that rate to 25 percent, an idea many tax experts said would dramatically reduce government income and balloon deficits.
He also announced a plan to allow parents to “fully deduct” childcare costs from their taxes.
Trump laid out a series of policies to revitalise a limping economic engine, including a sharp reduction of corporate tax from 35 percent to 15 percent, something he floated back in September as a way to lure back USA corporations that relocated overseas. However, he offered no specifics, and many regulations have been enacted to protect health and safety. I want to tighten them and make them cover more people so that we don’t ever end up in the ditch we were in with the Great Recession. Trump’s energy agenda, meanwhile, would open new sections of American coastal waters to offshore oil drilling and sweep away the Obama administration’s efforts to fight climate change.
The idea of writing such a letter had been discussed by GOP national security officials for a while, but gained momentum when Trump called on Russian Federation to share Clinton emails it potentially hacked and when he took a position many saw as legitimizing Russia’s claim to Ukraine’s Crimea region.
“He’s an independent economic analyst, and he basically said if Trump were able to implement what he’s proposing, heaven forbid, it would cost 3.5 million jobs”.
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The New York businessman used a speech on the economy in Detroit to try to turn the page after a week of missteps in which he came under heavy criticism, including from some in his own party, and rival Democrat Hillary Clinton surged ahead in opinion polls three months ahead of the November 8 election.
