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Trump, Clinton move focus to United States economy

Earlier Monday, Clinton toured a brewery as a way of highlighting her commitment to small businesses. “Trickle-down economics does not help our economy grow”. “The other party has reached backwards into the past to choose a nominee from yesterday-who offers only the rhetoric of yesterday, and the policies of yesterday”.

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Trump citied the Heritage Foundation, saying that by 2030, energy restrictions imposed by both the Obama and Clinton administrations would cut jobs and reduce economic output significantly.

“This will lead to millions of new good-paying jobs”. She also has two rallies scheduled in Florida Monday.

It was unclear whether private schools would be included under Trump’s plan and the campaign did not respond to a request for clarification. “The Obama-Clinton war on coal has cost MI jobs”.

“It won’t even be that hard”, Trump said.

He says that he has been working on the plan with his daughter, Ivanka, who is one of his top advisers.

He was discussing the economy before the Detroit Economic Club.

And he used the setting of the speech – Detroit – to draw a stark contrast with his rival’s approach.

Clinton says she opposes the TPP in its current form.

Trump’s speech hit a number of familiar themes – putting the interests of Americans first on trade and immigration, as well as restoring law and order – but also laid out a much broader and more specific set of ideas.

And he’s calling for a temporary moratorium on federal regulations.

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.

That’s a change from September, 2015, when he proposed four brackets that would pay zero, 10 percent, 20 percent and 25 percent.

Curtis Ellis, executive director of the American Jobs Alliance, said Trump sketched out a program that would address America’s economic problems in a comprehensive way and make it the best place in the world to do business.

Trump’s plan would benefit the richest in the United States most.

“Today, we heard a bold vision from Donald Trump – an outsider and businessman – who is listening to the American people”, Sen. Another sign read: “Trump Demeans Women”.

“A group of left-wing protesters interrupted me over 10 times”, Trump wrote. He says she supports policies that have shipped jobs overseas. “Ours is the campaign of the future”. Outside the Cobo Center where Trump was speaking, hundreds of protesters gathered. Security personnel removed the protesters to loud applause from the audience at the Detroit Economic Club. One woman stood on a chair and was quickly pulled down and escorted.

Several audience members shouted “we love you, Trump” and other messages of support.

When he did comment on the protest, Trump said, “I will say the Bernie Sanders people had far more energy and spirit”.

But much of the reaction was to Trump’s tax plan. He’s calling for cutting business taxes, eliminating regulations and boosting domestic energy production.

Trump depicted Clinton as a status-quo politician beholden to her Wall Street donors whose tax plan would cost Americans $1.3 trillion. “All you got is tiny hands!”

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The speech also is aimed at showing that Trump is a serious candidate in spite of a disastrous stretch that prompted criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers an economic policy speech to the Detroit Economic Club Monday Aug. 8 2016 in Detroit