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Showing posts with label US Election 2016. Show all posts
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Mr Trump's tax plan says the wealthiest individuals would get a tax break. But he told ABC his "optimum plan" would be negotiated with Democrats, but not be approved as such.
His top priorities would be lowering taxes on businesses and the middle class, not helping the rich.
On the minimum wage, Mr Trump said: "I haven't decided in terms of numbers. But I think people have to get more." He has previously said he is against increasing the minimum wage.
When asked about the change of position, the New York billionaire said: "I'm allowed to change. You need flexibility."
Trump rivals take parting shots
The story of his campaign - in controversial quotes
The New York tycoon is poised to deliver a crushing blow to Mr Cruz as Indiana votes in the latest primary.
Mr Cruz's advisers had targeted Indiana as the senator's best hope of halting Mr Trump's march to the nomination.
However, polls show Mr Trump with a sizeable lead in the mid-western state.
Mr Cruz attacked Mr Trump on Tuesday, calling the billionaire businessman "totally amoral," "a pathological liar" and "a serial philander".
Mr Cruz and fellow candidate John Kasich are hoping to force a contested convention where party officials, not voters, choose the nominee.
If Mr Trump wins Indiana, the New York businessman will likely reach the required 1,237 delegates to secure the nomination and avoid such a scenario.
Indiana
primary voters head to the polls: so what's at stake?
Meanwhile in the Democratic battle, polls show Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders locked in a tight race in Indiana.
However, a Sanders win in Indiana would do little to erase Mrs Clinton's commanding lead.
The Clinton campaign has shifted its focus to other states, opting not to actively campaign or spend money in Indiana.
Mr Trump told supporters on Monday that he is eager turn his attention to the general election.
"You know if we win it's over, and then I can focus," he said at a campaign rally in the state.
Mr Cruz cannot get enough delegates to win the nomination outright, but hopes he can still deprive Mr Trump of a majority.
He has thrown considerable resources into the state in recent days.
Mr Cruz is hoping to stop Mr Trump in his tracks in Indiana
At the scene: Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America reporter
Indiana was supposed to be where Ted Cruz stopped Donald Trump's recent east coast winning streak.
Instead the primary on Tuesday could prove his final undoing.
A Monday afternoon campaign event in the tiny town of Marion, Indiana (population 29,000) gave a taste of what Mr Cruz is up against.
It was supposed to be a feel-good gathering, the candidate's first public appearance with Mike Pence since the Indiana governor had thrown his support behind the Texan last week.
That was before a small knot of Trump supporters began heckling Mr Cruz from across a street.
"Indiana is in a position to decide the direction of this race, not just for Indiana, not just for the Republican Party, but for the entire country," he told supporters in the state.
"I think... the country is depending on Indiana to pull us back from this cliff."
The third Republican candidate, Mr Kasich, is no longer campaigning in Indiana.
He and Mr Cruz reached a deal last month to coordinate their strategies against Mr Trump, a move which prompted Mr Trump to label them "desperate".
Mr Trump, in his campaign manifesto, pledges to "cut a better deal with China that helps American businesses and workers compete".
He sets out four goals that include immediately declaring China "a currency manipulator" and putting "an end to China's illegal export subsidies and lax labour and environmental standards".
Figures from the US government show the annual trade deficit with China was at an all-time high of $365.7bn (£250.1bn) last year.
There was no immediate response from Beijing to Mr Trump's comments, but he is seen by many in China as an inspiration rather than an antagonist, says the BBC's Vincent Ni.
What's behind Trump's comments? Bill Wilson, BBC News business reporter
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Donald Trump has repeatedly accused China of manipulating its currency to make its exports more competitive, with what he says are damaging consequences for the US economy.
Rather than floating freely against the dollar, the Chinese authorities ensure the yuan maintains a closely fixed relationship with the US currency, and that it only trades in a narrow band either side of a fixed point selected by China.
Critics, including Mr Trump, claim China is keeping its currency at an unnaturally low level to boost its exports to the US, which also damages the prospects of US firms selling their goods to China. That, they say, has created in a huge trade imbalance.
Latest figures from Washington for US-China goods trade in January and February show the relationship does appear to be skewed. In those months the US exported $16.3bn in goods to China, but imported $73.3bn, leaving a massive goods trade imbalance of $57bn.
Last week, the US Treasury placed China (and others) on a currency watchlist, after pressure on the US government to be more robust in combating any currency manipulation by trading partners.
The Treasury stated that none of its large trading partners had engaged in currency manipulation in the past year, but indicated it was concerned about growing imbalances with some of those partners, including China.
Protesters
This is the first time Mr Trump has used the word "rape" in the context of China and trade, but his campaign for the Republican Party's presidential nomination has been punctuated by inflammatory comments.
He was confronted by hundreds of protesters in California on Friday before giving a speech to the state's Republican convention. Mr Trump was forced to enter the building by the back entrance.
Protesters were angry at his views on immigration: he has advocated building a border wall with Mexico, and has also referred to Mexicans as "rapists" and criminals responsible for bringing illegal drugs into the US.
Anti-Trump protesters were also out in force during the annual May Day rallies in California.
Media captionThere have been widespread protests in California against Donald Trump's candidacy
The Trump campaign had to cancel several rallies in March after hundreds of protesters threatened to disrupt events in Chicago and St Louis.
Mr Trump has called himself the Republican "presumptive nominee" after a string of primary wins.
In terms of delegate support, the property tycoon is far ahead of his nearest rivals, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and John Kasich, the governor of Ohio.
On the other side of the race, Hillary Clinton is expected to beat Bernie Sanders to the Democratic nomination and fight for the presidency in November's general election.
The Indiana governor has backed Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, four days before a crucial primary contest there.
Campaigning on Friday, Mr Cruz praised Governor Mike Pence, saying he would enthusiastically welcome his support.
Indiana's primary on Tuesday is the Texas senator's best chance to stem the momentum of Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
Mr Trump has won a string of states, taking him closer to being the nominee.
But if he does not win 1,237 delegates, there will be a contested Republican convention in July.
This would mean the delegates - local party activists and senior Republican officials - being free to pick an alternative candidate like Mr Cruz or the third candidate John Kasich.
It has been an eventful week for the Texas senator, taking a beating in five state primaries, picking Carly Fiorina as his running mate and then being called "Lucifer" by ex-House Speaker John Boehner.
Mr Pence made his announcement on radio on Friday, saying Mr Cruz was the best conservative among "three good men".
Will this matter? Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, Washington
With Governor Mike Pence endorsing Ted Cruz, the #NeverTrump movement takes a step closer to following a "Wisconsin blueprint" they hope will sink Donald Trump in Indiana and disrupt what has been his increasingly steady march to the Republican presidential nomination.
Mr Cruz's double-digit victory in Wisconsin earlier this month was fuelled by a confluence of factors - massive outside advertising spending, a determined ground game by the candidate's campaign team, the support of a popular governor and a local conservative media that was ferociously anti-Trump.
Although the media are much more divided in the Hoosier State -the biggest paper offered a tepid endorsement of Ohio Governor John Kasich, who isn't even campaigning there - the other pieces are falling into place.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars are being spent by the Cruz campaign and outside groups to take down the Republican front-runner, and Mr Cruz has essentially been criss-crossing Indiana for more than week.
Mr Pence had been under extraordinary pressure to get off the fence in the race - and now he has. The endorsement lacked enthusiasm, however - unlike the full-throated efforts of Wisconsin's Scott Walker. It's still good news for Mr Cruz, but will it be enough?
Who's supporting who in Indiana?
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TRUMP: Bobby Knight
Former head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers basketball team
"There has never been a presidential candidate prepared to the length that this man is. I think the most important thing in the world is that we vote for the best man for the job, and you've already met him"
KASICH: Indianapolis Star
Indiana's largest newspaper
"Ohio Governor John Kasich offers the best choice for voters in the Republican primaries. Kasich built a solid record as a member of Congress and has led well as Ohio's chief executive."
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TRUMP: Mike Tyson
Former professional boxer who served prison time in Indiana for rape
"He's an underdog and no-one likes that he's winning but I know Trump. This is a good thing." Mr Trump boasted about Tyson's endorsement while campaigning in the state.
Mr Cruz is seen by many Republicans as the only option to
prevent Mr Trump from being the party's presidential candidate
US presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has been called "Lucifer in the flesh" by the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner.
Mr Boehner, a fellow Republican, has also reportedly said he will not vote for Mr Cruz if he becomes the nominee.
Their rift dates back to when Mr Cruz led a group of hard-core conservatives to force a government shutdown in 2013, against his party's leadership.
Meanwhile, Mr Boehner has described Donald Trump as a "texting buddy".
He also said they have played golf together for years and that he would vote for the billionaire if he were the Republican nominee, the Stanford Daily reported.
The billionaire is the front-runner on the race for the Republican nomination, ahead of Mr Cruz.
The Texas senator is seen by many Republicans as the only option to prevent Mr Trump from being the party's candidate. Others, however, dispute this, saying he is a divisive figure.
Mr Boehner, who was the most powerful Republican in US politics for a time until he resigned last October, used strong language when he spoke about Mr Cruz during a talk at Stanford University.
"I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life," he said.
Inside divisions, by Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, Washington
Mr Boehner had once called Mr Cruz a "jackass"
John Boehner tells us how he really feels.
At a time when Ted Cruz is struggling to save his presidential campaign, having a former high-ranking member of the Republican Party compare him to Beelzebub is, shall we say, unhelpful. It further re-enforces the perception - hammered time and time again by Donald Trump - that Mr Cruz is too divisive, too abrasive, too unliked to be a successful leader.
The Texas senator likely would counter that he has made the right kind of enemies and the ire of the party establishment is a badge he will proudly wear. Unfortunately for him, however, the party establishment is just about the only thing left keeping his candidacy afloat. He has become the vessel for the #NeverTrump efforts - the last realistic candidate between Mr Trump on the nomination - and that movement is populated by insiders who, in any other situation, would not hesitate to stick a knife in Mr Cruz's back.
It seems Mr Boehner, happy in his retirement from politics, had no such reservations.
Mr Cruz is credited with having a large role in the federal government shutdown in 2013, when Mr Boehner was Speaker of the House.
The Texas senator is seen as having an aggressive posture and considers himself as an anti-establishment politician.
He reacted to Mr Boehner's remarks on Twitter, saying: "Tell me again who will stand up to Washington? Trump, who's Boehner's "texting and golfing buddy," or Carly & me?", he wrote, referring to Carly Fiorina, his pick for vice-president in an eventual candidacy.
When asked about the Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, Mr Boehner reportedly impersonated her saying "Oh I'm a woman, vote for me," which received a negative reaction from the crowd.
He later said they had known each other for 25 years and that he finds the former secretary of state to be very accomplished and smart.
Mr Trump says the speech will not be the unveiling of a
"Trump doctrine"
Donald Trump is to detail his foreign policy in a speech, a day after sweeping to a win in five US primaries.
Mr Trump, the frontrunner for the
Republican candidacy in the 2016 presidential race, will focus on trade and
security, his campaign said.
He has
previously said the US
should demand more from its allies.
On Tuesday,
Mr Trump called himself the Republican "presumptive nominee" after
wins in Connecticut, Delaware,
Rhode Island, Maryland
and Pennsylvania.
What has Trump said so far on
foreign policy?
While he
has used his campaign to outline some of his foreign policy goals, this is the
first time he has detailed them in a speech. He will use a teleprompter, having
previously said no candidate for the presidency should do so.
He said the
speech would not be a "Trump doctrine", and that he would retain some
flexibility to make changes if elected.
Here are
some of the main points he has made so far:
On Islamic State
Mr Trump supports stronger interrogation of IS suspects
He says that no
other candidate would be tougher on the so-called Islamic State (IS) and he
would weaken the militants bycutting off their access to
oil.
He has also
said he supports waterboarding and other strong interrogation methods against
IS. And while he says he would stay within the law, he would like laws on
interrogation techniques expanded.
The nuclear threat, and the risk of
proliferation, is "the biggest problem the world has", Mr Trumptold the New York Times last
month. Using a nuclear weapon first would be "an absolute
last step", he said.
On US allies
Mr Trump
has decried what he calls the United
States' position of "the world's
policeman", and calls it a weakness. He has called for a reassessment of
ties with some of Washington's
closest allies.
Speaking to
the New York Times about the US-Japan relationship, he said: "If we're
attacked, they do not have to come to our defence, if they're attacked, we have
to come totally to their defence. And that is a, that's a real problem."
On China,
for example, he says it should be taken to task ona number of issuesin order to make trade with the US more
equitable. If elected, he says he will make China stop undervaluing its
currency.
Who are his advisers?
Jeff Sessions is a former federal prosecutor
Mr Trump once said he was his own
best foreign policy adviser, but, in recent months, has expanded his back-room
team. Some of his appointments had proved controversial.
The team is
led by Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama who has helped shape Mr Trump's
policies.
Another
member, retired Gen Joseph Schmitz, resigned from the military in 2005 amid
accusations of misconduct. However, Mr Schmitz was never charged with
wrongdoing.
Another
adviser, Walid Phares, was criticised when he was named as part of Mitt
Romney's foreign policy team in 2011.
Muslim
advocacy groups took issue with Mr Phares's close ties to right-wing Christian
militia groups during the Lebanese civil war.
§"It's a perfect storm of
isolationism, muscular nationalism, with a dash of pragmatism and realism"
- Aaron David Miller, former adviser to Republican and Democratic
administrations between 1978 and 2003
§"He needs to show that he
has the substance, the depth of knowledge and the vision to be the American
commander-in-chief" - Steve Schmidt, former campaign manager to 2008
Republican candidate John McCain, to Reuters
After his sweep of the five mid-Atlantic states, Mr Trump said of the battle for the Republican nomination: "It's over. As far as I'm concerned, it's over."
He told supporters in New York he would not moderate his policies if elected president.
For the Democrats, Hillary Clinton was denied a clean sweep by Bernie Sanders, after he won in Rhode Island.
After their victories, Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton turned their fire on each other.
Mr Trump said his Democratic rival's only advantage in the presidential race was being a woman.
"Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think she'd get 5% of the vote," he said.
Mrs Clinton hit back at his accusation that she was playing the "woman card".
"Well, if fighting for women's healthcare and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in," she told cheering supporters in Philadelphia.
