CLEVELAND -- Two days after Donald Trump came to Ohio to lay out his foreign policy plan, Hillary Clinton is expected to tout her economic plan in Cleveland this afternoon nd sharply question Trump's proposal because he would give himself a $4 billion tax break -- enough to provide health care for every veteran in Ohio, eliminate hundreds of thousands of Ohioans' student loan debt or build hundreds of new schools.

CLEVELAND � Hillary Clinton warned Ohio voters today that despite a makeover in Donald Trump�s campaign staff and possibly a new affinity for prepared speeches, he won�t fundamentally change in the 82 days until Election Day.



But by bashing Trump over tax proposals she says would primarily benefit the rich, Clinton also demonstrated she isn�t changing from the script that Democrats have used in the past several presidential elections.



One thing that did change today was, for the first time in Ohio this year, an organized Trump effort to push back against a Clinton event.



Not only did the GOP nominee�s campaign release a counterattack responding to the Clinton team�s speech preview, a pair of public officials was lined up to make Trump�s case across the street from the site of Clinton�s visit, John Marshall High School on Cleveland�s southwest side



Such counter-messaging is routine in most presidential campaigns � Clinton staffers have been doing it for months � but it was new for Trump.



Such a lack of fundamental campaign infrastructure may partially explain why Trump trails in Ohio and other key campaign states � and perhaps why Trump revamped the top of his campaign team today.



No matter, Clinton told the 2,000-plus in the high school gym.



�For anyone waiting for Donald Trump to suddenly become more responsible, remember what a great American, Maya Angelou, said: �When someone shows you who they are, believe them,� � Clinton said to an enthusiastic crowd that included hundreds of high school students.



�He can hire and fire anybody he wants from his campaign. They can make him read new words from a TelePrompter. But he�s still the same man who insults Gold Star families, demeans women, mocks people with disabilities and thinks he knows more about ISIS than our generals.



�There is no new Donald Trump � this is it.�



Clinton�s critique of Trump�s tax proposal, which he outlined last week in Detroit, appeared to be an attempt to pry away working class voters attracted to the Republican.



In previous events Clinton emphasized how much of Trump�s own business empire, from his signature ties to his furniture, was made overseas. Today, she made the message more personal, honing in on what Clinton said would be a $4 billion tax break for Trump�s own family if the federal estate tax were eliminated as he proposed.



That alone would be enough to build 288 new elementary schools in Ohio, repay 166,000 student loans or provide health care to 373,000 veterans, Clinton said.



She deviated from her economic theme long enough to underscore that she is taking on the gun lobby.



�I am not at all advocating the repeal of the Second Amendment. I am not at all advocating any program that would in any way take people�s guns away. Here�s what I�m advocating: I want to help you stay alive" and make sure that anybody who shouldn�t have a gun in the first place doesn't obtain one, she said.



Bob Paduchik, Trump's Ohio campaign chairman, said in a statement that Clinton�s economic approach �would amount to a third Obama term and continue to short circuit Ohio's economy by raising taxes, increasing spending and killing jobs."



In Cleveland, Brook Park Mayor Tom Coyne, a lifelong Democrat who is voting for Trump, said whether Trump would personally benefit from his tax plan � along with Clinton � is irrelevant.



�I doubt that Donald Trump really has to worry about his own personal wealth. What I see is he made it, he wants others to make it, he consistently talks about others making it, so he wants to share wealth,� said Coyne, mayor for 25 years.



State Rep. Christina Hagan defended Trump�s sometimes-rude remarks about women.



�There are things said by men and women every day that I have to overcome,� the Alliance Republican said.



�The policy platform that he has put forward is far more substantial in my mind to the success of our nation that a few remarks that can be forgiven and the alternative to having a strong policy moving forward.



Hagan said the words she can�t forgive came from Clinton �in disregard to American soldiers� lives being lost.�

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