Republican candidate Donald Trump sought to get his presidential campaign back on track Monday with a focus on his economic plan for the United States that proposes sweeping tax breaks and cuts to federal regulations, but Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rival, dismissed it as a repackaging of old Republican ideas.
Speaking at the Detroit Economic Club, Trump criticized his the Democratic candidate:
“All Hillary Clinton has to offer is more of the same: more taxes, more regulations, more bureaucrats, more restrictions on American energy and on American production.”
In St. Petersburg, Florida, Mrs. Clinton retorted by targeting Trump’s new economic plan.
Trump’s tax proposals amount to traditional Republican “trickle-down economics,” she said.
Meanwhile, after a series of stumbles last week Trump has lost ground to Clinton, according to latest polls. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll saw him trailing the Democratic nominee by 9 points.
While laying out his plan, Trump has promised to withdraw from trade pacts, to label China as a currency manipulator and to enforce existing intellectual-property and other trade rules more aggressively.
“I want to jump-start America,” Trump said, “and it won’t even be that hard.”
Meanwhile, Republican Senator Susan Collins has declared that she won’t vote for Trump.
