Tim Kaine, comes from Virginia. Trump has claimed he does not want to release his income taxes while he is being audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). He has refused to disclose any returns, breaking tradition with all recent presidential candidates. “What is he trying to hide?”, said Jennifer Palmieri.
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The Real Clear Politics polling average put her ahead, 47.5 percent to 41.2 percent, and statistics guru Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight.com website gave Clinton an 87.5 percent chance and Trump a 12.5 percent chance of becoming the next president.
Her Republican rival, Donald Trump, this week also spoke in Detroit on his economic proposals.
The campaign unveiled a new website, togetherforamerica.com, that lists dozens of Republicans and independents who back Clinton, including former director of national intelligence John Negroponte and former NY mayor Michael Bloomberg. “Hillary Clinton has done that for decades”.
At the same time, the lists also give Clinton a peg for her argument that she has nothing to hide.
Calling on Republicans to cross party lines to support her, Hillary Clinton is warning that Donald Trump’s comments about Second Amendment supporters are just another example of how his words could have “tremendous consequences”.
“In many respects, you know, they honor President Obama”, Trump said Wednesday during a raucous campaign rally outside Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Mrs Clinton, meanwhile, launched an open appeal on Wednesday to independents and Republicans repulsed by Mr Trump’s comments.
Hillary Clinton is seizing opportunities presented by a volatile presidential race to expand her base of support heading into the fall, seeking to position the Democratic Party for a sweeping victory in November.
The couple also received $226,000 in pension and annuities.
“Much of what I hear is an argument over who is going to help the working class that’s been hurt by globalisation, more than the retail or restaurant worker who is stuck at a low wage”, says Jared Bernstein, an economist at the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. On Friday, his office confirmed that Clinton also halted his business dealings with GEMS Education a year ago. New members included roofing billionaire Diane Hendricks, investor Carla Sands and hedge funder Anthony Scaramucci.Workers’ anxiety over trade deals has become a central theme in the 2016 election, and Clinton rejected the portrait Trump has painted that she only pretends not to favor the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal she praised when she was secretary of state from 2009-2013 but has more recently opposed. Currently, profits from those entities are taxed as individual income for their owners, up to a top rate of 39.6 percent.
Trump’s unusually candid reflection about the uncertainty of his electoral prospects came as he’s struggled to keep the focus on his opponent – Clinton – and avoid unwanted distractions. Including state and local taxes, the pair paid an effective rate of 43.2% in taxes 2015.
The Clinton Foundation is a very unusual charity.
Together they made $6.7 million in speaking fees. Hillary Clinton delivered 51 speeches in 2014 and the first three months of 2015, earning more than $11 million. She commanded her highest rate from EBay, which paid her $315,000 for a March 2015 address in San Jose. That’s well below the roughly $20 million they made the year before. Bill Clinton’s fees rose over time. They brought in $6.7 million from speeches, mostly his, and $3.1 million from book advances and royalties, nearly entirely hers. Their average federal tax rate for the past 10 years was 18 percent.
In 2015, Kaine and Holton reported $313,441 in total income, the vast majority of that coming from their respective salaries, Kaine as a US senator and Holton as Virginia’s secretary of education.
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Over the 10-year span, the two reported total annual income ranging between $156,967 and $314,398.
