The four-day Democratic National Convention kicked off July 25.
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While Warren is widely known for her opposition to Wall Street influence, a position at the core of Bernie Sanders’ message, she left no doubt about her support of the presumptive Democratic ticket.
Warren says GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s “whole life has been about taking advantage of that rigged system”.
“Hillary Clinton has bad judgment”. An America of fear and hate. “On the other side, it’s one of the smartest, toughest, most tenacious people on this planet. I’m with Hillary. I’m with Hillary”.
The Massachusetts senator is using her speech at the Democratic National Convention to highlight Trump’s comments about benefiting from the 2008 housing crash – and she’s noting his business bankruptcies.
“What kind of a man acts like that?” I will tell you what kind of a man: “a man who must never be president of the United States”. But even then, in 2009, when she might pull her own suitcase into an Au Bon Pain by the train station, someone would come up to her to say that “there should be a 100 more people like you”. Warren said. “Not once did he lived a finger to help working people”.
She said Trump has an abysmal record of dealing with common laborers, and that he looks out only for himself.
Clinton formally tabbed the former Virginia governor as her running mate on Friday, July 22, settling on him from a pool that also included the widely popular and liberal-minded Warren as a finalist.
“We’re here today because our choice is Hillary Clinton”, she told delegates, repeating three times, “I’m with Hillary”.
“Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president, and I am proud to stand with her tonight”, Sanders said, as reported by CBS News. “When we turn on each other, we can’t unite to fight back against a rigged system”.
“Democrats fought to get health insurance for more Americans”.
Trump has “no plans to make anything great for anyone, except rich guys like Donald Trump”, she said. Warren has said that stories of her Native heritage have been passed down in her family.
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Before becoming a senator, Warren was a professor at Harvard Law School and served as chairman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program – TARP – which was created in 2008 to try to stabilize the country’s financial system as the recession hit. Efforts to draft her for a White House run previous year fell flat, but she maintained her strong standing on the left, with many eagerly watching to see who she whether she would endorse Sanders.
