Warren said Trump’s response to the economic tumult triggered by Britain’s vote to leave the European Union – he suggested it would benefit Trump enterprises such as his golf course in Scotland – was consistent with a career of exploiting poor and working-class Americans for personal gain.
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Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump released an in-depth, 35-page document that criticizes his presumptive Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. “And I must say, I do just love to see how she gets under Donald Trump’s thin skin”.
The Clinton campaign has been looking intently at Warren as a potential vice presidential pick after the senator endorsed her on June 9, the same day as President Obama and Vice President Biden. While introducing Clinton to a cheering crowd in Cincinnati, the MA progressive senator repeatedly drew contrasts between the former secretary of state and Donald Trump.
Warren’s most cutting rhetoric was reserved for Trump, who has derided her as “Pocahontas”, “goofy” and ineffective in the U.S. Senate.
Warren on Monday hearkened to her and Clinton’s humble roots, contrasting the duo with Trump and “rich guys just like him”.
“I’m here today, because I’m with her, yes her”, Warren said, alluding to a popular slogan of support for Clinton, to roaring applause from a capacity crowd at the Union Terminal. “Their sad attempt at pandering to the Sanders wing is another example of a typical political calculation by D.C. insiders”.
Clinton has struggled to win over some liberal backers of rival Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist United States senator from Vermont, since beating him for the Democratic nomination earlier this month. Warren used the stage to attack Trump several times on Monday. “It’s a racist thing that she’s done when she created a phony heritage”, he said. He previously said that some of the people who run casinos on reservations “don’t look like Indians” to him and “don’t look like Indians to Indians”, during a 1993 testimony before Congress. That’s an implicit dig at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a more impulsive speaker.
In a three-way race with Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson included, Trump led Clinton 39 percent to 32 percent with Johnson a distant third at 7 percent. “Part of Trump’s campaign problems is his communications department, of which there isn’t [one]”, he said.
The document goes to list 48 other well-documented criticisms of Clinton. “This is a trade deal that Clinton has expressed support for in over 45 public speeches”.
Elizabeth Warren is joining Hillary Clinton in Cincinnati Monday for their first joint campaign event. Some progressive voters are also skeptical about this pledge.
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Warren’s appearance with Clinton points to a coalescing of the Democratic Party a month before its national convention in Philadelphia. The one who didn’t show?
