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Donald Trump, casting aside ‘pivot,’ lashes out once again at Elizabeth Warren

Echoing the populist note during the primary season, in which Bernie Sanders, a self-claimed democratic socialist senator from Vermont, mounted surprisingly serious challenges against Clinton, Warren acknowledged on Monday that opportunities for ordinary people in the country “are slipping away”.

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The issue of Clinton’s trustworthiness is a top concern among Democrats. “And I must say, I do just love to see how she gets under Donald Trump’s thin skin”.

She’s being vetted by lawyers involved in Clinton’s vice presidential search, and they’ve asked Warren for documents and to complete a questionnaire.

“You want to see goofy?”

Warren’s support for working-class Americans has made her a favorite with liberals, and she appeared to relish her opportunity to lay into Trump on the national stage. “So I understand why people have questions”.

Warren showed how she could play the role as an attacker-in-chief against Republican Donald Trump, calling him a “small, insecure money-grubber”, “a nasty man” and “goofy”.

For her part, Clinton teased the political relationship between them as she heaped some high praise on the progressive senator. By a 53 percent to 45 percent margin, conservative Republicans say they prefer a different nominee to Trump, while moderates are split 49 percent to 49 percent. And while our respondents nearly universally had heard a lot about the shooting in Orlando, only about half or so had an opinion on how Trump or Clinton responded to the tragedy. “Are you with her?” she said to a loud roar.

In the same Monmouth poll, 38 percent of Democrats said that they would be more likely to vote for Clinton if Warren were her running mate.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager said Sunday that the Brexit vote was “very instructive”, but he doesn’t want to “create too many false equivalencies between a referendum overseas about an economic union and a vote here in the United States for president”.

In an email to supporters on Monday, Eric Trump first refuted the notion that the campaign is not able to raise the dollars needed to compete against Hillary Clinton.

Opponents, Clinton said, “have accused me of every crime in the book”.

Voter attitudes like Robenalt’s made Warren’s enthusiastic embrace of Clinton, the former senator and secretary of State, all the more important. Hillary has brains. She has guts.

She lamented that more Americans had lost their trust in government and other professional institutions like the media, businesses, religion, and even professional sports. In contrast, the Clinton ad showed her campaign’s “tone deafness” by focusing on things the American people did not care about, he said in an NBC interview.

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In a statement, Mr Trump called Sen Warren “a sellout” for backing Mrs Clinton, who has taken donations from Wall Street interests and once backed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Asian trade deal.

Hillary Clinton stands along side Senator Elizabeth Warren at a campaign rally in Cincinnati Ohio. REUTERS  Aaron Josefczyk