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Ivanka Trump, right, applauds as her father, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, as he delivers his childcare plan in a policy speech in Aston, Pennsylvania, on September 13, 2016. (Photo: AP/Associated Press)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has opened up a 5-point lead over Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the Ohio, new polling finds. No president has won the White House without carrying the battleground Buckeye State since then-incumbent Republican Vice President Richard Nixon was defeated by Democrat John F. Kennedy in 1960. No Republican presidential candidate has ever won the White House without it.
A new Bloomberg Poll conducted by Selzer & Company finds Mr. Trump leading Mrs. Clnton in a 4-way matchup 44% to 39%, with Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson receiving 10% of the vote and Green Party candidate Jill Stein with 3%. In a head-to-head matchup, the New York businessman still leads the former secretary of state by 5 points, 445 to 39%. The results are in line with a recent Quinnipiac University Poll showing Mr. Trump leading Mrs. Clinton by 4 points in Ohio.
(UPDATE: A new CNN/ORC Poll (B) finds Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton 46% to 41%, with Gov. Gary Johnson at 8 and Dr. Jill Stein at 2%. In a head-to-head matchup, The Donald still leads 50% to 46%, cracking the highly significant majority threshold vote.)
This marks a big shift in the race not only from a few weeks ago, but from 2012. While President Barack Obama defeated Gov. Mitt Romney 51.1% to 47.2% in the national popular vote, he barely carried Ohio by roughly 2 points, 50.67% to 47.69%.
Further, Republicans also increased their lead on the generic congressional ballot, leading their Democratic counterparts 51% to 38%. Incumbent Republican Sen. Rob Portman, who has embraced the party nominee and his pro working class message, has widened his lead over Democrat Ted Strickland 53% to 36%. The race is now rated LIKELY REPUBLICAN by the PPD 2016 Senate Election Projection Model.
(UPDATE: A new CNN/ORC Poll (B) finds Sen. Portman crushing former Gov. Strickland, a Clinton ally, 58% to 37%.)
Worth noting, the poll was conducted from September 9 to 12, before the Republican unveiled his childcare plan in Pennsylvania Tuesday night. That’s also mostly comprising interviews that took place before Mrs. Clinton called half of Trump voters a “basket of deplorables” and largely prior to Mrs. Clinton collapsing at the 15th memorial service for the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in New York City.
During the primary, Mr. Trump lost the state of Ohio to hometown Gov. John Kasich with more votes than Mrs. Clinton received when defeating Sen. Bernie Sanders. The Buckeye State is now rated LEANS TRUMP by the PPD 2016 Presidential Election Projection Model.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken
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With his daughter Ivanka by his side, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump laid out his childcare plan in Aston, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia on Tuesday. As People’s Pundit Daily previously reported, the plan for working mothers that is unlike any proposal ever put forward by a Republican presidential candidate.
FULL TRANSCRIPT
Thank you. I want to applaud my daughter, Ivanka, for her work and leadership on the issues facing working moms in our country. She has been deeply invested in this since long before the campaign began, and I am so grateful for her work and efforts on this proposal which I will be outlining today.
I want to also take a moment to recognize Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Chairwoman of the House Republican Conference and a mother of three small children, who has been such a leader on these issues.
We are also joined tonight by some amazing members of Congress in our audience: Congresswoman Blackburn, Lummis, Black, and Ellmers.
Our campaign is about ideas. We’re about solutions. I’ve travelled all over the country in recent weeks offering detailed plans to make life better for you and your family.
I’ve outlined detailed proposals for providing school choice, reforming our tax and regulatory code, lifting restrictions on American energy, rebuilding our military, changing our foreign policy, fixing our immigration policy, and keeping our country safe.
Right now, our politicians have locked our country into endless fights about small and petty things. I’m asking the nation to lift our sights, and to imagine what we can accomplish if we work together, trust each other, and put the needs of our own citizens first.
We must break our ties with the failed and bitter politics of the past and pursue a future where every American is honored and respected.
We have to reject the arrogance of Washington D.C. that looks down on everyday hardworking people. Too often those who have power have disdain for the views, beliefs and attitudes of those who don’t have political power.
Those in leadership must put themselves in the shoes of the laid-off factory worker, the family worried about security, or the mom struggling to afford childcare.
That means we need working mothers to be fairly compensated for their work, and to have access to affordable, quality child care for their kids.
We want higher pay, better wages, and a growing economy for everyone.
These solutions must update laws passed more than half a century ago when most women were still not in the labor force. Today, nearly 2 in 3 mothers with young children have jobs.
For many families in our country, childcare is now the single largest expense – even more than housing.
Yet, very little meaningful policy work has been done in this area – and my opponent has no childcare plan.
Many Americans are just one crisis away from disaster – a sick kid, a lost job, a damaged home. There is no financial security.
But that will all change under our pro-family, pro-child, pro-worker plans I am outlining tonight. Before going any further, I want everyone watching on TV right now to go to DonaldJTrump.com to read
the full plan.
The first part of my childcare plan allows every parent or family in America – including adoptive parents and foster parent guardians – to deduct their childcare expenses from their income taxes.
They will be able to fully deduct the average cost of child care for their state, from birth through the age of 13.
Because of the way the benefit is capped and structured, our plan will bring relief to working and middle class families.
The deduction also applies to elder care, capped at a $5,000-dollar deduction per year.
Importantly, our policy also supports mothers who choose to stay at home, and honors and recognizes their incredible contributions
to their families and to our society. Families with a stay-at-home parent will be able to fully deduct the average cost of child care from their taxes.
For low-income individuals who have no net income tax liability, we will offer an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the form of a childcare rebate. Working parents can get an expanded EITC benefit that equals up to half of their total payroll tax – a major relief for low-income parents. This translates to as much as an extra $1,200 dollars in EITC benefits for working families.
Next, our plan allows every parent in America to open up a Dependent Care Savings Account. Families can contribute up to $2,000 dollars a year to these accounts completely tax-free. Crucially, unlike the flexible spending accounts that exist today, these accounts will be available to all Americans – you won’t have to depend on your employer to provide them.
Immediate family and employers can also contribute to a dependent account, each of which is designated for a specific child, including an unborn child.
The money that is put into these accounts can also be spent not only on child care, but also child enrichment activities. Additionally, the funds in these accounts do not expire at the end of the year – they don’t revert to employers or to the Treasury. Instead, the funds rollover – so while only $2,000 dollars can be contributed each year, unspent sums can accumulate and create substantial savings.
These savings can then be used by parents to help give their kids school choice, and will thus contribute to the school choice reforms
I outlined last week.
The funds will remain in the account until the age of 18. Whatever still remains at that time can be used to help offset the costs of higher education.
For low-income individuals, the federal government will provide matching funds – if parents contribute $1,000 dollars, the federal government will provide a $500 dollars match. To help low-income families reach these targets and save money, we will put a box on federal income tax forms allowing these parents to have their Earned Income Tax Credit funds directly deposited into their Dependent Care Savings Accounts.
These Dependent Care Savings Accounts can also be set-up
to provide care for elderly dependents.
Our plan also includes much needed regulatory reform to incentivize private sector solutions. The new funds offered by our plan will create a new market for innovative childcare solutions.
But to make sure these solutions are available, especially in low-income and rural communities, we must reduce regulations that favor large institutional care facilities. We will allow the states to make the decisions that are right for them.
In this era of the sharing economy, we want parents to be able to access lower-cost, competitive and innovative solutions at the click of a button – including services like nanny-sharing. Our plan would also cover care provided by relatives and grandparents.
Our plan includes incentives for more employers to offer on-site childcare as well. This can often be a good solution for many working parents, and can save them up to 30 minutes of commute time. Currently, only 7% of employers provide these services. Our plan will expand tax deductions for employers, allow companies to pool resources to provide shared childcare services, and remove needless requirements that have prevented employers from using the credit.
Finally, our plan offers a crucial safety net for working mothers whose employers do not provide paid maternity leave. This solution will receive strong bipartisan support, and will be completely self-financing. By recapturing fraud and improper payments in the unemployment insurance program, we can provide 6 weeks of paid-maternity leave to any mother with a newborn child whose employer does not provide the benefit. This maternity leave will be paid straight out of the unemployment insurance fund and, again, this safety net will be completely paid-for through savings within the program.
There are more reforms and solutions in our childcare plan, and you can review them all on the website.
On Thursday, I will outline my full economic plan, which is completely paid for through economic growth and proposed federal budget savings. Together, our tax, trade, regulatory, and energy policies will add trillions in new deficit-lowering growth.
These are the kinds of solutions I want to bring to the White House as your President. It’s time to free ourselves from the baskets that politicians try to put us in, and instead to work together – not as Republicans or Democrats – but as Americans, to achieve real, positive results for the American people.
While my opponent slanders you as deplorable and irredeemable, I call you, hard-working American Patriots who love your country, love
your families, and want a better future for all Americans.
It’s time to end the rule of special interests, and to begin the rule of the American people.
It’s time to stop fighting over the smallest words, and to start dreaming about the great adventures that lie ahead.
It is time to Believe In America.
Together, We Will Make Our Country Strong Again.
We Will Make Our Country Prosperous Again.
And Will Make Our Country Great Again For Everyone.
With his daughter Ivanka by his side,
Pat Smith, left, the mother of Sean Smith, who died during the attack at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi in 2012, speaks at the 2016 Republican National Convention. State Department headquarters, right, in D.C., left, and, right, Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to the reporters at United Nations headquarters on Tuesday, March 10, 2015. (Photos: PPD/AP/Seth Wenig)
Hillary Clinton was declared in default in court late last week after she failed to response to a lawsuit filed by two of the Benghazi victims’ families. Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, and Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods, filed a lawsuit against the Democratic presidential nominee claiming she wrongfully caused the death of their sons and engaged in defamation, as well as intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
The Hill reports:
The Democratic presidential nominee was declared in default by the court clerk Friday — a designation that simply means she was served with court documents and that she did not answer the complaint. It is not a finding of liability.In fact, Clinton’s Secret Service delegation and campaign aides refused to accept the summons, according to court documents.
But Clinton will now have to respond in some way — such as arguing that the default be set aside or moving to dismiss the case entirely — to avoid the possibility that a judge could rule automatically in favor of the plaintiffs.
Her lawyers could also seek an extension that would push her deadline for response past the November election.
Patricia Smith and Charles Woods claim in the suit that the attack that killed their sons, Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods, as well as two other Americans, “was directly and proximately caused, at a minimum” by Clinton’s use of a private email server while in office.
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Friday’s declaration of default doesn’t carry any automatic impact — a default judgment, for example, would require a request from the plaintiffs. The court now awaits motion from either party.
The parents, now the plaintiffs, also alleged that Mrs. Clinton defamed them in statements to the media.The families of the victims have been publicly criticizing Mrs. Clinton, among other administration officials, for lying to them about the cause of the attack (the YouTube video) and the events that transpired over the 13 hours. She said during an interview with her former employee-turned-journalist George Stephanopolous that the families were lying about her statements in the days after the attack. She later walked back her claims, instead blaming the “fog of war” for her statements, which she now again denies making.
Ms. Smith has been an outspoken critic of Mrs. Clinton, most recently at the Republican National Convention in July, after which she was trashed by Clinton surrogates.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing where one of the men under subpoena, Bryan Pagliano, who helped set up Hillary’s unauthorized and unsecure email server, failed to show up to testify. The other Platte River Network associated who used Bleachbit to wiped her server clean even though the committee had the contents of the server under federal subpoena, plead the fifth.
Hillary Clinton was declared in default in
Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen, co-writer, co-producer and co-star of the animated comedy “Sausage Party,” is unhappy with me — for defending him.
His movie was attacked by some online commentators for using ethnic and sexual stereotypes, as cartoons often do. What was remarkable is how incensed some people get over a cartoon, even one about talking food.
A reviewer for a site called Autostraddle at first praised the movie, including its depiction of a talking lesbian taco voiced by Salma Hayek.
But then the site replaced the review with a 2,600-word apology. Autostraddle calls itself a “progressively feminist online community for a new generation of kickass lesbian, bisexual & otherwise inclined ladies.” Its endless apology said, “After we received feedback about (the “Sausage Party” review) from our Trans Editor (and others including Facebook commenters), we decided to un-publish the piece.”
Un-publish. Last week, I did a show on free speech. A tweet I sent out plugging it said, “The attack on free speech even extends to silly movies like @SethRogen’s Sausage Party.”
Rogen sent my tweet to his 4 million Twitter followers. (Thanks for that, Seth!) But being a Hollywood leftist, he didn’t thank me for defending his movie. Probably because I work for Fox, he tweeted that my tweet is what happens “(w)hen idiots use your movie to pretend that free speech is being attacked when it isn’t at all.”
Rogen’s followers pounced, one saying, “It’s baffling that some people can’t comprehend that criticism is a part of free speech … Everything is working as intended. Stossel is a tool.”
Rogen tweeted again: “People tweeting that they hate your sh— isn’t an ‘attack on free speech.’ It’s people using free speech to tell you they hate your sh—.”
But wait! I agree! As I said, private organizations have the right to publish or “un-publish” just about anything.
Fortunately, commenters who read about this on the website Mediaite got it: “Rogen would have been wise to not say anything … (L)ike a typical Hollywood star, he thought it was all about him. Stossel was making a point about the state of free speech in America today and mentioned the reactions a silly movie is getting to help make his point.”
To clarify: Private individuals are free to criticize all they like, and the First Amendment forbids government to decide whether a taco is offensive to lesbians — or to fundamentalist Christians for that matter.
It’s an important rule. We have just one government. When government censors, we’re all screwed.
Private citizens and private organizations, whether they’re TV channels, universities or activist groups, can duke it out in the arena created by our right to free speech.
We should keep in mind, though, that the same people who get upset about lesbian tacos, irreverent depictions of Jesus, drug use in movies or whatever the controversy of the day is, sometimes become politicians. Some then try to use government force to shut their enemies up. Hillary Clinton wants to censor a movie that criticized her. Donald Trump promises to “rewrite” libel law.
I fear that the growing belief that no one should ever have to suffer being offended or hearing something that upsets them could come back to haunt us with calls for real censorship. That would be a real attack on free speech.
It’s good to have a thick skin. In the free-for-all of public debate, people will get upset.
I can’t order people to listen to their enemies any more than I can order my enemies to shut up. The best thing we can do when we hear upsetting ideas is respond with good counterarguments.
People who keep arguing with each other, even if they offend each other, are less likely to look for uncommunicative, violent ways to settle their disputes.
Keep making art, voicing opinions and expecting other people to tell you you’re an idiot who should stay silent. That’s the messy process by which we learn from each other.
I assume Seth Rogen agrees that’s the best use of free speech there is.
Seth Rogen, co-writer, co-producer and co-star of
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his daughter, Ivanka Trump, at a campaign event in Virginia Beach, Va. (Photo: Reuters)
On Tuesday, Donald Trump will lay out his childcare plan for working mothers that is unlike any proposal ever put forward by a Republican presidential candidate. The childcare plan, which has his daughter’s fingerprints all over it, represents the fulfillment of a campaign promise made during the Republican National Convention on an issue Ivanka Trump feels is deeply personal.
Among other things, the proposal will allow working mothers to deduct childcare expenses from their taxes at the end of the year, up to 4 children. It expands the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to rebates up to $1,200 per child and allows for a stay-at-home deduction.
The Republican nominee will lay out the details of the plan at an event in Aston, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia at 7:30 p.m. EST. The campaign told reporters Ivanka, who just had another child during the grueling GOP primary, had a big role in crafting the policy with policy advisors to the campaign.
It also advocates for the creation of dependent care savings accounts that would allow tax-deductible contributions to grow tax-free, which could be used for after school education tuition and other expenses. The Trump campaign said it will promote family-based and community childcare, as well as recognize the role of women in the workforce by providing tax incentives to employers who are offering or want to offer workplace childcare.
Last, but certainly not least, the plan will provide six weeks of maternity leave under the federal unemployment insurance program for any working mother that is not currently covered under an employer-provided plan.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump will lay out
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Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook wouldn’t or couldn’t say if he knew Hillary Clinton had and was diagnosed with pneumonia before she collapsed on Sunday. In an interview Monday afternoon with MSNBC’s Kate Snow, Mr. Mook was grilled on when and if he knew of the diagnosis, to which he responded by insinuating the line of questioning was unfair.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook wouldn't or
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, right. (Photos: AP/Associated Press)
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday he wanted U.S. Special Forces out of the southern region and blamed America for inflaming Muslim insurgencies in the region. Speaking to newly appointed government officials, President Duterte did not offer specifics but he did make his position crystal clear. It was his first public statement opposing the use of U.S. armed forces.
“For as long as we stay with America, we will never have peace in that land,” he said.
State Department spokesman John Kirby said that the Obama administration had heard of President Duterte’s comments, but was “not aware of any official communication by the Philippine government to that that effect and to seek that result.”
Mr. Duterte and Mr. Obama are far from friends or close allies. The Philippines president last week ahead of the ASEAN meetings said Mr. Obama was the “son of a whore,” which was widely reported only as “a son of a bitch.” He has also called him the latter.
“The special forces, they have to go. They have to go in Mindanao, there are many whites there, they have to go,” he said, adding that he was reorienting the country’s foreign policy. “I do not want a rift with America, but they have to go.”
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said he wanted
President Barack Obama pauses while speaking to members of the media in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday, June 13, 2016. (Photo: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Barack Obama will veto the 9/11 bill allowing victims’ families to sue Saudi Arabia for the terror attacks in New York, Washington, D.C. area and Pennsylvania. e GOP-controlled House of Representatives passed Senate bill 2040 (S.2040), known as the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, ignoring veto threats from the president and Riyadh vowing to pull billions of dollars from the U.S. economy.
The bill “amends the federal judicial code to narrow the scope of foreign sovereign immunity by authorizing U.S. courts to hear cases involving claims against a foreign state for injuries, death, or damages that occur inside the United States as a result of a tort, including an act of terrorism, committed anywhere by a foreign state or official.”
The White House confirmed Mr. Obama would veto the bill and warned of “unintended consequences,” saying the bill would “change longstanding international law regarding sovereign immunity and the president continues to harbor serious concerns this legislation would make the U.S. vulnerable in other court systems around the world.”
However, the Congress could very well have the votes to override the president. In May, the GOP-controlled upper chamber unanimously approved the bill and the lower chamber passed it in a bipartisan fashion. The sponsors of the bipartisan bill in the Senate, Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, called on the Republican House of Representatives to pass the bill and now they have.
It also “amends the federal criminal code to permit civil claims against a foreign state or official for injuries, death, or damages from an act of international terrorism. Additionally, the bill authorizes federal courts to exercise personal jurisdiction over and impose liability on a person who commits, or aids, abets, or conspires to commit, an act of international terrorism against a U.S. national.”
So, what role did the Saudis play in the worst attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor? That remains unclear and open to discussions, but the relatives of Sept. 11 victims had been urging the Obama administration to declassify and release U.S. intelligence that allegedly discusses possible Saudi involvement in the attacks. In July, a 28-page 2002 congressional report on the September 11, 2001 terror attacks was released Friday and it indicated some of the hijackers had ties to people in the Saudi government.
The report cited the reason for a “limited understanding” of Saudi Arabia’s role and financing of terror groups as an unwillingness to investigate “due to Saudi Arabia’s status as an American ‘ally.’” It also revealed that in 2002–only a year after the deadliest terror attacks in U.S. history–the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had numerous leads indicating ties between Saudis in America and some of the hijackers, specifically the two that took control of Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon.
Members of the royal family, including Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, left, who is one of the men allegedly responsible for funding Bin Laden. (Photos: AP/Getty/AFP)
Further, it links associates of the hijackers and Saudi Arabian Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former longtime ambassador to the United States. In a phone book found on al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah, who was captured in Pakistan in 2002.
The documents released claim Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi national who helped two of the hijackers in San Diego, Calif., was suspected of being a Saudi intelligence officer. “Al-Bayoumi was known to have access to large amounts of money from Saudi Arabia, despite the fact that he did not appear to hold a job,” the report said.
While the 9/11 Commission found him to be an “unlikely candidate for clandestine involvement” with Islamic extremists, the new document says that FBI files indicated al-Bayoumi had “extensive contact with Saudi government establishments in the United States and received financial support from a Saudi company affiliated with the Saudi Ministry of Defense. … That company reportedly had ties to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida.”
President Obama will veto the 9/11 bill
