--- title: Donald Trump Hits the Reset Button, Again description: Donald Trump attempts to hit the reset button with an economic policy address. Hillary Clinton continues to stumble over email questions. canonical: https://time.com/4442879/donald-trump-hits-the-reset-button-again/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-08T14:24:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:49:31.523Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Hits the Reset Button, Again og:description: Donald Trump attempts to hit the reset button with an economic policy address. 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The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.Mark Wilson—Getty Images by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Aug 8, 2016 2:24 PM UTC **_If you only read one thing:_** _Donald Trump will attempt to hit the reset button for the umpteenth time Monday as he delivers an economic address in Detroit. Following a brutal 14 days for his campaign, in which he squandered his convention bounce, Trump is hoping that returning to scripted economic speeches will provide him a path back to contention. Trump will announce tweaks to his tax plan designed to make it more populist, but he has yet to provide and indication of how he’d pay for the massive reduction in revenue—the original would cost $11 trillion over a decade—as he calls for doubling U.S. infrastructure spending and increasing defense spending, all without touching entitlements. Hillary Clinton is set to deliver her own economic address in Detroit on Thursday. Her plans are more cohesive, generally including specific pay-fors for her proposals. For Trump, the bar to meet though isn’t to deliver an master plan, rather it is far more mundane: can he deliver the speech without yet another unforced error to derail his campaign. Republican Party officials will be watching Trump closely this week to determine whether he can, in fact, stick to a message. And the consequences for him if he does not may be harsh._ Hillary Clinton’s reflexively protective response to questions about her use of a private email server have once again got her into hot water. After telling Fox News last week that the FBI validated her public claims about not using the server for classified information—an easily falsifiable statement—Clinton claimed she “short-circuited” her answer Friday. The line instantly entered the political lexicon as emblematic of how Clinton’s penchant for obfuscation is often her own worst enemy. The email controversy has been a classic case of, “it’s not the crime, it’s the cover up,” as nearly every statement she has uttered on the subject has needed to be revised, extended, or corrected. Obama reveals his handicap. A Bush endorses Trump. 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