“Trump’s entire campaign is one more late-night Trump infomercial”, she said.
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While enthusiastically endorsing Clinton, Warren spent most of the speech attacking Trump.
According to officials within the campaign of Hillary Clinton, who on Thursday evening will officially accept the party’s presidential nomination, Warren will join first lady Michelle Obama and Vermont Sen.
“We know what you’re all thinking”, Dunham said. “To the Bernie or Bust people, you’re being ridiculous”, Silverman said.
“They want us to fall in line and get behind Clinton”, said Dianne Fowler, a delegate from MI who was wearing blue tape over her mouth that read: “Silenced by the DNC“. “We’re here today because our choice is Hillary Clinton”.
She pointed to the Republican convention last week as evidence Trump’s strategy is to incite fear rather than present solutions to problems facing voters.
Yet while Elizabeth Warren was not chosen, she displayed at the Democratic National Convention why she is such a powerful politician and an effective counter to the abrasive broadsides delivered by Donald Trump. A woman who fights for all of us and who is strong enough to win those fights. “We’ve seen this ugliness before, and we are not going to be Donald Trump’s hate-filled America”.
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., gives his thumb up as after speaking to delegates during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Monday, July 25, 2016.
“Where was Donald Trump?”.
Former state Sen. Carol Donovan, a Clinton delegate from Woburn, said she appreciated Warren’s speech. “So when I tuned into [the RNC] last week, I was like: uh, hey, that’s my act”.
Ms. Warren will preach unity, both against Mr. Trump and within the Democratic Party itself.
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Trump’s “whole life has been about taking advantage of that rigged system”, she said, calling his campaign “the great Trump hot-air machine”.
