Hillary plans to disqualify GOP rival on handling of economy

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton plans to portray Republican Donald Trump as an erratic and unfit steward of the nation’s economy, returning to Ohio to press the case that workers would bear the brunt of the business mogul’s policies.

Ms Clinton’s Tuesday address in Ohio, one of the nation’s most prominent swing states, will aim to place a marker on the economy in a similar manner in which she did on foreign policy earlier this month with a searing takedown of Mr Trump in San Diego.

“If we put Donald Trump behind the steering wheel of the economy, he is very likely to drive us off the cliff,” said Ms Clinton’s campaign senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan previewing her remarks.

The former secretary of state’s address at an alternative high school in Columbus will question Mr Trump’s temperament to guide the economy and point to his business record as evidence of how he would treat small businesses and working families if he won the White House.

Ms Clinton’s campaign seized on a report Monday by Moody’s Analytics which found Trump’s plans would lead to a “lengthy recession,” costing nearly 3.5 million American jobs.

Moody’s Analytics predicted Trump’s approach would swell the federal debt as the nation’s economy becomes more isolated.