The world’s biggest economy has recently produced mixed results.
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“The economy is a jump ball from my point of view”, said Hart.
A draft of the letter, which operatives say has at least 70 signatories, warns that Trump’s “divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide”. “When that happens, it begins to change for the Democrats”.
Clinton delivered her economic address in Macomb County, just outside Detroit, in the heart of some of the nation’s most fabled political terrain.
Neck and neck in Iowa: Trump and Clinton are almost tied in Iowa, a new poll shows. And certainly the plan to boost jobs and the economy that she’ll present Thursday is replete with detailed programs and policy prescriptions.
Clinton praised the company that hosted her for being “on the front lines of what we hope will be a true manufacturing renaissance”. “That would kill even more jobs”.
He estimated her plans would add 3.2 million jobs to that baseline. There would be funds for blight removal to make urban neighborhoods more attractive to employers. “One nonpartisan expert at the Tax Policy Center described this plan as, I quote, a really nice deal for Donald Trump”.
“We had to train those workers who took our jobs”, Kevin Griesser, 47, a lead toolmaker at the plant.
But Clinton’s campaign sees it as fertile territory for her to seize on Trump’s vulnerabilities by questioning his commitment to the American economy by noting his history of outsourcing. “And that should be celebrated”. And despite positive news on jobs gains in recent months, it’s a challenge that could be further complicated by recent economic reports showing sluggish growth this year, which Republicans are pinning on President Barack Obama.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at Abraham Lincoln High School, in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016.
“Based on what we know from the Trump campaign, he wants America to work for him and his friends, at the expense of everyone else”, she said at a manufacturing company in MI.
Clinton proceeded to assail the “moratorium” on federal regulations that Trump proposed in Detroit on Monday, saying Trump would allow corporations to pollute the water our children drink, while giving Wall Street a free pass to wreck the economy again.
But, as Clinton and Trump march steadily toward Election Day, Clinton’s more immediate mission on Thursday was to create contrast with her opponent. Let me repeat that: “the Trump family gets a $4 billion tax cut. and 99.8 percent of Americans get nothing”.
The speech came after Trump unveiled his economic plan in Detroit on Monday, where he said he would reduce the tax brackets to three, cut the corporate tax rate to 15% and abolish the estate tax.
Clinton said the Republican nominee’s economic policy favors the rich and would do little to help small businesses. She also didn’t have much to say about how her policies would diverge from the problematic trade deals that she has supported in the past.
“I think there are a lot of better ways to spend the money”, Clinton said. “She doesn’t have the talent to do it”, the Republican presidential nominee said.
Margie Omero, a Democratic pollster, said Clinton is making inroads with critical Republican constituencies, including white, college-educated women in the latest round of polling.
“His approach is based on fear, not strength”, Clinton said.
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She said she would appoint a chief trade prosecutor and impose targeted tariffs on country-something the federal government already does-and also assign additional trade enforcement officers.
