In an election year characterized by populist energy over economic concerns like jobs and trade, the gap is striking.
Advertisement
The UPI/CVoter daily presidential tracking poll for Wednesday shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 4.3 percentage points.
The release on Friday is part of an effort to undercut Trump’s character by questioning the celebrity businessman’s record.
Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, has yet to say if he will release his taxes, which he has not done as governor of Indiana.
Investigation after investigation – whether it’s Whitewater or Travelgate or Benghazi or the Clinton Foundation, a lot of them led by Republicans – has come up with nothing, literally nothing that is prosecutable or even chargeable. So it’s no surprise the candidates have been trying – and sometimes struggling – to connect with average voters. Trump routinely disparages the agreement as bad for American jobs.
“The only way they can beat it, in my opinion – and I mean this 100% – if in certain sections of the state, they cheat”, he said. Prior years were released by his campaign. While Clinton hasn’t gone as far with an anti-globalization tilt, she’s switched to criticism of the Obama administration’s centerpiece trade initiative, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In her speech to the Democratic National Convention last month. Clinton said in the Rodham family, “no one had their name on big buildings. My family were builders of a different kind”.
Yet the stench of all of those investigations and accusations and, yes, even a few outright insane conspiracy theories promulgated by right-wing lunatics, like accusations of murder, have so enveloped Clinton that no matter what she says – which, let’s be honest, is usually said unartfully and in lawyerly parsed terms – only makes things worse.
Trump understands profound love, too. “I do”, Trump said, using another acronym for the extremist group that has wreaked havoc from the Middle East to European cities. “And he did a attractive job”.
“Democrats have put forward vast, extremely flawed moral and public policy positions, and every day that’s not spent focusing on those weaknesses is a day lost”, said state Sen. It will take nothing short of a miracle for the economy to overcome such specifics, much less the the uncertainty of ever-increasing government spending which ultimately must be paid for.
While the Republican majority in the House (247-188) is cushy and generally deemed safe in the November election, Coffman’s open opposition against Trump shows that “Republicans are increasingly getting nervous about House races as well”, said Oppenheimer. Asked specifically about USA citizens, Trump told the Miami Herald that he didn’t like that Obama and others wanted to try them in traditional courts. And I liked them better than the rich people that I know. But some people-some people misinterpret me.
A source close to Clinton said she would soon release the return, supplementing the decades of returns she and her husband have already made public.
In June of 2014, ABC’s Diane Sawyer asked about her lucrative paid speeches to audiences that have included Wall Street firms.
And the moment Ms. Clinton gets to the White House, if indeed she does, she will be judged against a higher standard than Mr. Trump. They are generally in line with lowering the corporate rate, maybe not the same amount, but Republicans said we’re not going to let you do that piecemeal because so much business is done through pass-throughs that you have to deal with individual rates at the same time.
And you know what?
That answer was widely panned by Clinton’s critics and rated “mostly false” by Politifact.
That changed after Trump’s attacks on the parents of a Muslim American Army captain killed in Iraq, his challenge to Russia to find deleted Hillary Clinton e-mails, his questioning of NATO’s collective defense commitment and his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin. “They want you to say what you mean and mean what you say”.
Advertisement
Despite Trump’s massive wealth, his “willingness to say just about anything to just about anyone at any time” has strengthened his credibility, Luntz said, with working-class people who are “tired of being talked down to”.
