The Latest: Sanford links Trump support to releasing taxes

WASHINGTON (AP) ' The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times EDT):12:10 p.m.Hillary Clinton is greeting Vice President Joe Biden on an airport tarmac outside of Scranton, Pennsylvania.The vice president spoke briefly with some of Clinton's advisers, including campaign chairman John Podesta, at the start of a day of campaigning together.Clinton was riding to the rally with Biden in the motorcade to their first joint campaign event.___11:35 a.m.Republican Rep. Mark Sanford, who served as governor of South Carolina, suggests he could abandon his support for Donald Trump if the GOP presidential nominee fails to release his tax returns.In an op-ed in Monday's New York Times, Sanford describes himself as a conservative who has little patience for Trump's personal style and "penchant for regularly demeaning others." However, Sanford is backing the nominee because of the Supreme Court vacancy and the possibility that the next president could fill several openings.Whether Sanford remains in the Trump camp is contingent on the nominee's release of his tax records.Sanford writes that there is a precedence for such transparency. The congressman also pointed out that Trump had criticized 2012 nominee Mitt Romney for moving slowly in releasing his tax returns.___4:35 a.m.Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is getting an assist from Joe Biden in Pennsylvania on Monday. The vice president plans to call Donald Trump the most uninformed presidential nominee in history.Biden is holding his first campaign rally with Clinton in his hometown of Scranton.Biden's office says he will argue that Trump, the Republican hopeful, is less prepared on national security than any nominee in history. And he'll say that Trump's erratic rhetoric and "bluster" will make Americans less safe.Biden is also expected to make a pitch for Clinton's plans on the economy and educations. It comes as Clinton has pressured Trump to release his tax returns and questioned his jobs agenda for middle-class workers.___4:23 a.m.Republican Donald Trump says he will replace nation building with what aides are calling "foreign policy realism" focused on destroying the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations.This will come in a speech in Ohio Monday laying out his vision.The GOP presidential candidate will argue the country needs to work with anyone that shares that mission, regardless of other disagreements.Trump is also expected to propose a new immigration policy under which the U.S. would stop issuing visas in cases where adequate screenings can't be performed.And he's expected to propose creating a new, ideological test for admission to the country that would assess a candidate's stances on issues like religious freedom.Join the conversation about this story
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