| | | | Trump tries to put the wheels back on in Detroit | | Donald Trump sought to get his stumbling campaign back on track today, unveiling at the Detroit Economic Club a tax reform plan aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan's policy agenda, CNN's Jeremy Diamond and Tom LoBianco report.
Trump's tax details: His plan would more than halve the number of income tax brackets and bring rates down to 12%, 25% and 33% from a current high of 39.6%. Trump proposed drastically reducing federal income tax rates to 10%, 20% and 25% -- a proposal that nonpartisan groups assessed would add trillions of dollars to the national debt.
Criticizing Detroit in Detroit -- as a way to hit Hillary Clinton: Trump called the city's economic collapse an example of politicians abandoning "America first" policies in favor of a globalist agenda, saying it's a "living, breathing example of my opponent's failed economic agenda." He added: "If you are a foreign power looking to weaken America, you couldn't do better than Hillary Clinton's economic agenda."
Clinton swung back in St. Petersburg, Florida, launching fresh attacks against Trump's business record and temperament. "There is no other Donald Trump. What you see is what you get," Clinton said. "He is still the same Donald Trump making shirts and ties overseas instead of in the United States ... He is the same Donald Trump who refuses to pay his bills to small businesses and working people." CNN's MJ Lee was there.
A potential "first family" read: Ivanka Trump, who championed paid family leave at the RNC, doesn't offer her workers a single day of paid maternity leave at the company that designs her clothing line, reports The Washington Post's Daniella Paquette. | | | The CNN Poll of Polls incorporating the results of six major polls -- all conducted after the party conventions concluded in late July -- finds Hillary Clinton with an average of 49% support to Donald Trump's 39%. When third party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are included, the margin remains the same, with both candidates losing the same amount of support to land at 45% for Clinton to 35% for Trump, with Johnson at 9% and Stein at 5%. | | GOP to Trump: Don't make us lose the Senate | | Republican leaders are watching Donald Trump's campaign with growing alarm as they fear a landslide at the top of the ticket could wipe away their hard-fought congressional majority, CNN's Manu Raju and Deirdre Walsh report. "If it's 10 points or more, we are in big trouble," said one top Republican.
In a private meeting last week at a Phoenix airport, Sen. John McCain of Arizona urged Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, to keep the top of the ticket trained on Hillary Clinton -- and not engage in squabbles with other Republicans or distractions, according to a source familiar with the session. Pence, the source said, agreed.
What Democrats need: For Democrats to regain the Senate, they need to pick up four seats if Clinton wins the White House and five if Trump pulls off a victory. And there are ample opportunities for Democrats in blue and swing states -- namely in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio and New Hampshire. They could also play for retiring Dan Coats' seat in Indiana, Marco Rubio's seat in Florida and McCain's in Arizona. And Democrats are really only on defense in Nevada, where Harry Reid is retiring. | | | President Barack Obama played golf with reigning NBA MVP Stephen Curry, as well as his father Dell Curry and aide Valerie Jarrett's cousin Cy Walker, on Martha's Vineyard Monday. | | Evan McMullin is running for president | | Your first question might be: Who is Evan McMullin? He's a former House GOP aide and CIA operative who's running for president as an independent -- giving conservatives who will never support Donald Trump and don't want to vote for Gary Johnson an alternative in some states. He's a 40-year-old Mormon from Utah -- a state where he could do Trump some damage, even though it's too late to get on the ballot in about half the 50 states.
How was McMullin recruited? Rick Wilson, a Tallahassee, Florida-based Republican consultant and anti-Trump leader, recruited McMullin into the race. But other so-called "NeverTrump" conservative groups say they don't know anything about him. | | 50 GOP security bigwigs oppose Trump | | Fifty prominent Republican foreign policy and national security experts -- many veterans of George W. Bush's administration -- have signed a letter denouncing Donald Trump's presidential candidacy and pledging not to vote for him. The New York Times' David Sanger had the scoop.
On the list: Former CIA and National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden, former Director of National Intelligence; Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte; Eric Edelman, who was Vice President Dick Cheney's national security adviser; plus two Homeland Security secretaries under Bush, Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, and Robert Zoellick, a former World Bank president, U.S. trade representative and deputy secretary of state.
How'd it come together? John Bellinger drafted the letter with edits from Bob Blackwill and Eliot Cohen, per CNN's Dana Bash. One official involved said he was stunned by how "enthusiastic" everyone was to sign.
The letter is brutal, saying of Trump: "He is unable or unwilling to separate truth from falsehood. He does not encourage conflicting views. He lacks self-control and acts impetuously. He cannot tolerate personal criticism. He has alarmed our closest allies with his erratic behavior." Read it here. | | Longtime DC scribe Ron Fournier is going home to Detroit. ... Senate Democratic leader-in-waiting Chuck Schumer says he opposes giving President Barack Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership a vote in a lame-duck session. ... A pro-Donald Trump radio host has a strange standard of evidence. He tweeted: "Imagine polls don't exist. Show me evidence Hillary is winning?"
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