Clinton said she has had to earn the trust of voters before, including when she ran for Senate in NY in 2000 and when she ran for president in 2008. Any questions about chemistry were answered today.
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“When Donald says he’ll make America great, he means greater for rich guys just like Donald Trump”, Warren continued, while “he’ll crush you into the dirt”.
“I just love how she gets under Donald Trump’s skin”, Clinton said.
Warren is a hero of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, someone who has battled with bank executives and campaigned to reduce student debt. Bernie Sanders all but ended primary season.
Her arm over Warren’s shoulder, Clinton lavished praise on the progressive icon, whom she called a “friend” and a “great leader”.
The U.S. senator from MA appeared with Clinton before a raucous, enthusiastic crowd in Cincinnati, Ohio, targeting a battleground state in a potential preview of a Clinton-Warren campaign team.
Warren, though, has also been an outspoken critic of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, an Obama administration agreement Clinton was slow to take a position on during the campaign after calling it the “gold standard” as secretary of state. But no joint appearance has been as enthusiastically received as the one with Warren, thus upping the speculation about her joining the ticket. Elizabeth Warren on Monday, slamming the Hillary Clinton surrogate for her claims of Native American heritage and calling her “very racist”. “There’s never been any effort”, Brown said. Because Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States.
The presumptive presidential Democratic nominee told a women’s luncheon crowd Monday in Chicago that she has work to do to earn trust that’s been damaged by a quarter century of “wild accusations” that aren’t true.
“Hillary has brains, she has guts, she has thick skin and steady hands, but most of all, she has a good heart”, Warren said. “Ohio reflects the broader debate that’s going on about economic uncertainty and the impact of free trade in particular”, said Jim Manley, a Democratic strategist supporting Clinton. “This sad attempt at pandering to the [Bernie] Sanders wing is another example of a typical political calculation by D.C. insiders”.
Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, who lost his Senate race to Warren in 2012, on Monday attacked Warren’s past claim of having Native American heritage.
Republicans claim that Warren fabricated her ethnic background to gain an employment advantage.
“Now maybe we can persuade people to change their minds by marshaling facts and making arguments to rebut negative attacks”, Clinton said.
Three weeks before the Republicans’ convention in Cleveland, Donald Trump’s support is declining, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
“We’re here to fight side-by-side with Hillary Clinton”, she said dubbing Mr Trump “a small, insecure money grubber who fights for no one but himself”.
It seemed to have worked. “I think she’s a racist, actually, because what she did was very racist”, Trump told NBC in an interview.
Warren is a darling of liberals in the Democratic Party and considered a possible running mate for Clinton. In a CBS News poll released late last month, more than eight in ten OH voters said they were anxious about the economy’s direction and, though voters in the state said Clinton is more prepared to be commander-in-chief, 69 percent said Trump would “bring change to Washington”.
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On the walls of the hall where they spoke, there were murals depicting moments in history, including workers building skyscrapers, plowing earth and laboring on train tracks. Each of these options left a negative impression, with respondents saying they would be less likely to vote for Clinton if she chose any of these men as her VP.
