Increasing the gap

With it being October, we are drawing nearer and nearer to Election Day on November 8^th. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton continue to clash heads with each other in order to persuade the remaining population of undecided voters. As I was watching the town hall format debate that occurred this week, I noticed that Secretary Clinton seemed far more interested in insulting and condemning Donald Trump for his proposals and ideas than she did on speaking about her middle class roots, something that she effectively spoke of in the first debate. She also didn’t fail to criticize him over the recent video that has emerged from his rude and inappropriate comments about women he made ten years ago. Is this an important issue and one that needs to be addressed? It absolutely is. Is this an issue that she needs to spend the majority of her time on? It absolutely is not. She needs to continue to sway the decisions of the undecided voters, many of who are in the middle class.

While she didn’t spend nearly any time and attention on the middle class in the most recent debate, Secretary Clinton has given members of the middle class plenty of reason to vote for her. She doesn’t want to raise taxes on the members of the middle class. In order to make their lives financially easier, Clinton proposed and was in favor of taxing other things, with one being that she was in favor of adding a 25% sales tax on guns. While I personally think she could find bigger and better things to rather than guns since I am a huge supporter of the second amendment and have grown up around firearms my whole life, this is an effective strategy. Many of her left wing supporters are in favor that stricter gun laws need to be implemented into the United States, especially after the many mass shootings our nation has faced over the past five years. By doing these things, she is slowly but surely increasing the gap between herself and Mr. Trump.