'Six Weeks Paid Maternity Leave.' Trump Woos Women, Working Families
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has unveiled a plan aimed at making child care more affordable.
"We can provide six weeks of paid maternity leave to any mother with a newborn child whose employer does not provide the benefit," the GOP nominee said while announcing his plan.
The plan would seem to break with conservative orthodoxy, but it has been endorsed by the conservative Family Research Council. Trump claims it could be paid for by recouping the cost of welfare fraud, estimated at $3.5 billion a year.
Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign says Hillary Clinton will resume normal activities Thursday after she was reported to have pneumonia.
Clinton's poor health has some Democrats in a panic. The president, who stood in for her Tuesday in the battle ground state of Pennsylvania, told an audience, "What sets Hillary Clinton apart is she never stops caring; she never stops trying."
But Clinton needs to try to get well because new data from the Associated Press shows that eight weeks before Election Day, Republicans have gained ground on Democrats in registering voters in the three battleground states of Florida, Arizona, and North Carolina, and have maintained their lead in Iowa.
The news comes as remarks by former Secretary of State Colin Powell about both candidates are back in the news.
Powell called Trump "a national disgrace" in hacked emails obtained by DCLeaks.com. He also wrote that he told Clinton's staff repeatedly not to try to blame him for her using a private computer server for government business.
Clinton still faces congressional hearings over her handling of classified emails. The former State Department IT specialist who set up Clinton's private server ignored a subpoena to appear Tuesday at a House committee hearing. Others have pleaded the Fifth.
That controversy along with her serious health issues have clearly hurt Clinton in the polls, which now show the race basically tied, with less than two months to go before the election.
