“His tax plans would give super big tax breaks to large corporations and the really wealthy,” Ms. Clinton said.Hillary Clinton offered a simple reply to Donald Trump’s economic address Monday- “Don’t let a friend vote Trump.”

At a rally in St. Petersburg, Florida, Ms. Clinton said the plans Mr. Trump outlined earlier in Detroit would push the country back into recession, warning that his plans benefit the rich and do little to create jobs or boost the economy.“His tax plans would give super big tax breaks to large corporations and the really wealthy,” Ms. Clinton said, characterizing the proposals, which include substantial tax cuts, as “trickle-down economics.”

“You know that old saying: Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me,” she said.Ms. Clinton countered with her own economic proposals, saying she wants to invest in public works projects and more educational opportunities and will tax top earners to pay for her plans. She is expected to speak to the Detroit Economic Club on Thursday.

“I have said throughout this campaign I am not going to raise the taxes on the middle class, but with your help we are going to raise it on the wealthy,” said Ms. Clinton.At a rally later in the day in Kissimmee, Florida, Ms. Clinton continued her criticism, saying that Mr. Trump “hasn’t offered any plans on infrastructure besides building a wall and having Mexico pay for it.” She also stressed her commitment to small businesses, asking “would you rather have a president who says you’re fired or you’re hired?”

Earlier Monday, Ms. Clinton toured a brewery as a way of highlighting her commitment to small businesses. She plans to campaign in Miami Tuesday, as part of a two-day tour through battleground Florida, home of 29 electoral votes.Ms. Clinton is focusing on jobs and the economy at campaign events. Aides say they hope to build on polls showing Ms. Clinton gaining ground on economic issues, which have made up the core of Mr. Trump’s campaign message.

“We are not interested in economic plans that only help the top 1 percent,” Ms. Clinton said in St. Petersburg.Ms. Clinton is putting a heavy focus on Florida with travel and television advertising. President Barack Obama narrowly won the state in 2012. At her Kissimmee event, she pledged to support Puerto Rico, saying she would do all she could to put it “back on a path of prosperity.”

While there, Ms. Clinton also plans to meet with health professionals combatting the Zika virus. She said she would meet with people on the “front line of Zika” on Tuesday.“Washington cannot keep ignoring the needs of the families of Florida,” Ms. Clinton said.The Republican-controlled Congress left Washington in mid-July for a seven-week recess without approving any of the $1.9 billion Mr. Obama requested in February to develop a vaccine and control the mosquitoes that carry the virus. Abortion politics played a central role in the impasse.

Last month’s failed coup may allow the Turkish President to cement his Islamist narrative in the national consciousness.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has always had ambitions of surpassing Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, as the country’s most consequential figure.

Now, a failed coup may allow him finally to do that.

For years, Mr. Erdogan, an Islamist, has celebrated great moments of the Ottoman past when Istanbul was the seat of the Islamic caliphate, and played down Turkey’s secular history established by Ataturk.Consolidating powerWith last month’s failed coup, he now has his own story, and he has wasted little time propagating his own set of events and symbols to cement the narrative in the national consciousness.

A bridge over the Bosporus that was seized by renegade soldiers has been renamed for the civilians killed there. A square in Ankara, occupied by tanks as the military tried to take power, has been renamed as a symbol of democracy. Numerous street names have been changed to honor those who died defending the government.

Pro-government news media outlets have published thick volumes about the coup, celebrating the victims as national heroes, and the state broadcaster is making a documentary. Statues and monuments are planned, and next July 15, the anniversary of the failed coup, will be a national holiday. The conspirators have their place, too. Far on the outskirts of Asian Istanbul, on a plot of gravelly land near a dog shelter, graves have been dug for felled coup plotters in what is being called “the cemetery for traitors”.

‘New Turkey’Mr. Erdogan’s purpose is to ensure not only that nothing is lost to history, but also that this latest chapter in Turkey’s history will be largely owned by his Islamist supporters.In doing so, analysts say, he has found an opportunity to celebrate what he has long called the “New Turkey” — a modern nation that emphasises Islam and is a break from the country’s secular past.Kerem Oktem, a Turkish historian at the University of Graz in Austria, described it as “a narrative of an Islamist defence of democracy”.

The narrative is one of heroic defiance in the name of Islam, against foreign powers. But there is a twist: In Mr. Erdogan’s telling, the coup was led not by the old secular elite, but by followers of Fethullah Gulen, a cleric who heads a rival Islamist movement and lives in self-exile in Pennsylvania.

The coup attempt, and how it was defeated by crowds of Erdogan supporters and even some secularists who flooded the streets to stand up to the soldiers, has already been referred to as Turkey’s second war of independence.The first one, led by Ataturk, followed the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I and was at the centre of constructing a Turkish identity centred on secular and nationalist principles. — New York Times News Service