A demonstrator is led away as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers an economic policy speech to the Detroit Economic Club, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, in Detroit.
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During the subdued, buttoned-up address, which came on the heels of a long week of missteps for the campaign, Trump cast himself as the antidote to the job-killing economic policies of Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama.
Trump is to speak at noon EDT (1600 GMT) to the Detroit Economic Club and advisers said he will focus on trade, taxes, immigration and regulation.
Targeting Clinton Mr Trump attempted to refocus his firepower on Mrs Clinton by insisting that her economic policies would lead to higher taxes and stifling regulations.
“Upstate New York, disaster”, Trump said.
“We can not let her win because that will be disaster for Detroit and everybody else”, Trump said.
Outside the Cobo Centre where Mr Trump was speaking, hundreds of protesters gathered.
Trump is revisiting his economic plan as he tries to move past a rough patch in his campaign marked by comments that have drawn criticism from both parties.
Trump’s economic plan includes proposals he has offered before, including a call to reduce the corporate tax rate to 15% from 35%.
Donald Trump is overhauling the income tax proposal he unveiled during the Republican primary and increasing the amount that would be paid by the highest-income earners.
“This is where we need to drill down and keep talking about over and over again”, former Rep. Jack Kingston, a Trump adviser, told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on “New Day” Monday. Trump’s proposal from previous year had envisioned four brackets: zero, 10 percent, 20 percent and 25 percent. “This gets to the whole heart of the campaign”. It’s a theme Trump and his daughter, Ivanka, first introduced during the Republican National Convention, part of an effort to broaden the appeal to Democratic voters and sway women ahead of the general election. But Democrats have touted the comeback of the auto industry during the Obama administration as a mark of success for the types of economic policies Clinton is supporting. She pledged to create some 200,000 in upstate NY, which the report called a broken promise. “I am totally in favor of trade deals”, Trump said, but only if they benefit USA workers.
The Clinton campaign pushed back against Trump’s economic vision, releasing comments ahead of Trump’s speech from small business owners in MI who oppose his candidacy. He announced his backing of Ryan on Friday.
House Speaker Paul Ryan’s campaign spokesman, Zack Roday, praised Trump’s proposal saying it “has many similarities to the job-creating plan at the heart of House Republican’s Better Way agenda”.
Trump will also revisit his opposition to current trade deals, including his plan to renegotiate the NAFTA trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, and vow to improve intellectual property protections.
“You know that old saying: Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me”, she said.
His running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, took the stage at 12:10 p.m., followed by Trump about 12:20 p.m. “He’s a driver”, Pence said.
But who cares? Even if Trump has thought about the issue, he might well change his mind in the future.
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Jill Colvin reported from New Jersey.
