Donald Trump is focusing his economic message on boosting jobs and making the country more competitive on a global stage by cutting business taxes, reducing regulations and increasing domestic energy production. He says she supports policies that have shipped jobs overseas.
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But in a Fox News interview on Sunday, Gingrich said that while Trump had made mistakes, he thought Clinton’s errors around a private email server she used while President Barack Obama’s secretary of state were worse. “Ours is the campaign of the future”.
Clinton’s advertised economic speech in Detroit comes amid a jobs tour she and her running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, launched after the Democratic convention.
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, is leading her Republican rival Donald Trump by nine points, a latest opinion poll said today. Trump will look to start getting back on track with his speech Monday at the Detroit Economic Club. It also came after what was widely seen as his worst week as a presidential candidate for the November 8 election.
Ron Elving, NPR senior Washington editor and correspondent. “This is to target voters in general that he’s not just live-tweeting his candidacy, that there is some deeper thought behind his efforts”.
Clinton has been pulling away from Trump in recent polling, following his disastrous battle with the parents of slain Iraq War veteran Capt. Humayun Khan.
Senior aides and supporters said the NY businessman, making his first run at public office, wanted to put behind him his disputes with Republican Party leaders and the parents of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq. Trump had a 40 percent to 31 percent lead among independents in the July poll. Trump waited for the interruptions to end, refraining from his practice at campaign rallies of asking security to “get them out of here”.
He will also call for a repeal of the estate tax and for three income-tax brackets, compared to the seven now in existence. And a companion plan on reducing government spending, which he had promised would follow, never came. Kudlow said he will also propose an increase in the standard deduction for families and special deductions for childcare and the elderly. The current Child and Dependent Care tax credit is capped at 35 percent of qualifying expenses or up to $3,000 for one cared-for individual or $6,000 for two or more.
As recently as Sunday, Trump focused more on Clinton’s mental health and appearance than on policy.
Detroit remains economically emblematic.
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“The headline should read: ‘Trump puts together a brilliant team to help bargain on behalf of the American people, ‘ and instead, we wallow in this muck of political correctness”, he said. To stem illegal immigration, he said he would build a wall along the US southern border with Mexico.
