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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers an economic policy speech to the Detroit Economic Club, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, in Detroit.
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Trump Tries to Right His Campaign, Talking of Tax Cuts 

JILL COLVIN                  hewed closely to what           As he called for urgent       protesters who stood on       American family whose son
JOSH LEDERMAN                House Republicans have          change away from Dem-         chairs and shouted at him     died fighting in Iraq.
Associated Press             recommended, the latest         ocratic policies, he envi-    before being pulled out of    Republicans inside and out-
DETROIT (AP) — Promising     indication the GOP presi-       sioned a nation refocused     the room by security guards.  side of Trump’s campaign
to “jumpstart America” to    dential nominee is work-        on manufacturing at home      He did not react harshly as   have implored him to shift
a new era of prosperity,     ing to put infighting with his  and wary of trade deals       he often has in the past,     the conversation back to
Donald Trump announced       party’s leaders behind him.     abroad — a country bear-      either quietly thanking the   Democrat Clinton’s per-
a revamped economic          In a shift from the plan he     ing little resemblance to     guards or simply powering     ceived shortcomings. On
plan Monday aimed at re-     proposed during the prima-      the globally focused econ-    ahead in his speech. Only     Monday, he obliged, ac-
vitalizing a stagnant  U.S.  ry season, he increased the     omy of recent years.          days ago, Trump triggered     cusing her of jilting Ameri-
economy by cutting taxes     tax rate that the highest-      “Americanism, not global-     panic within the GOP when     can workers and coming
for workers and businesses.  earning Americans would         ism, will be our new credo,”  he declined to endorse        up short on promises to
He assailed Hillary Clinton  pay. With few exceptions,       he said in his address at     House Speaker Paul Ryan’s     constituents.
as a candidate who would     Trump provided more of a        the Detroit Economic Club.    re-election or that of other  “The one common feature
merely extend a Demo-        philosophical basis for an      “Our country will reach       leading Republicans. He       of every Hillary Clinton idea
cratic period of old ideas   economic plan than a se-        amazing new heights —         sought to put the dust-up to  is that it punishes you for
and weakness.                ries of specifics.              maybe heights never at-       bed Friday by finally back-   working and doing business
Trying to move past recent   He did spell out proposed       tained before.”               ing those candidates while    in the United States,” Trump
stumbles, Trump proposed     tax brackets and called for     Delivering his speech from    also trying to move past      said.
a simplified three-bracket   greater child care deduc-       a teleprompter, Trump was     other controversies like his
income tax system that       tions for families.             interrupted repeatedly by     verbal attacks on a Muslim-         Continued on Page 3