With a speech Monday to the prestigious Detroit Economic Club, the Republican presidential nominee seeks to reset his campaign and delve into a subject – the economy – that is seen as one of his strengths.
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Trump’s speech at the Detroit Economic Club called for the elimination of the estate tax; reduction of the corporate tax from 35 percent to 15 percent; and setting three income tax brackets, which would pay a 12 percent, 25 percent, and 33 percent rate, depending on the bracket.
“Love her or hate her, and frankly most voters come closer to the latter sentiment, Clinton clearly tops Trump on the “steady hand” test”, Murray said.
This comes out of a weekend in which Trump called Democrat Hillary Clinton “a terrible, awful human being” at a campaign rally in New Hampshire. It’s unclear exactly what that means or how it would work, but there are now about 2.7 million civilian federal employees.
The Republican nominee proposed a plan to shrink government and grow the economy with an across-the-board regulatory reduction and tax cuts that would apply to wealthy estates, companies, and several classes of individuals.
Trump has vowed to re-negotiate trade deals to secure better terms for American workers. Economists have raised concerns in the past that such tariffs could lead to a trade war that would ultimately hurt American interests. Trump proposes to tax them as ordinary income. Trump spent more than a year defining himself as unelectable.
Now, if there were four million committed Hillary voters waiting to be sweet-talked with just one more rendition of “Make America Great Again”, then this might not be so daunting.
Part of Trump’s advantage on the economy, in addition to his background as a NY real estate tycoon, may be his running as the “change” candidate as he seeks to characterize Clinton as representing a continuation of status quo policies.
She helped craft parts of it as secretary of state but said that after she saw the final draft, when she was a presidential candidate, she opposed it because it didn’t meet her standards. Trump is at times pausing while the protesters are dragged out and sometimes continuing his remarks.
Clinton, too, suffers from a perception that she’s “too willing to bend the rules” – 66 percent of Americans surveyed say so.
What is telling is that Clinton has opening up a big lead on Trump even with the third party candidates included in the polling. “Ours is the campaign of the future”. This is a massive math problem for Trump because it is becoming more and more apparent that his ceiling of support, in a remotely normal turnout election, may be as low at 42%, which is a number which keeps coming up a lot for him in recent polls and that is consistent with…
Donald Trump’s campaign has pulled his tax plan from his website ahead of a planned relaunch on Monday.
The estate tax, which Trump said should be abolished, has always been a point of irritation for conservatives. It also is aimed at showing that he is a serious candidate despite a disastrous stretch that has prompted criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike.
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This also comes from a weekend in which opinion polls showed Clinton gaining eight- and nine-point advantages over Trump nationally and double-digit edges in battleground states ranging from Virginia to Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.
