LIZ TELLS HILL: AIM HIGHER
Wants debate focus on Dem’s positives
DURHAM, N.H. — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren — who has reveled in her role as Donald Trump’s liberal tormenter in chief — yesterday urged Hillary Clinton to showcase herself rather than attacking the GOP nominee at the first debate tomorrow. “I think it’s about finding who you are on the inside and then just coming out there with it, and coming out there at Donald Trump — but coming out there to be with the American people,” Warren said as she stumped for Clinton during a threestop tour of New Hampshire yesterday. “Make the case for why Hillary Clinton should be president of the United States. This is going to be a moment where she has a chance to say to a much wider audience, a lot of people across America, ‘This is who Hillary Clinton is, and this is what it is that I’m going to get out there and fight for,’ and I think that’s really important.” Warren, a progressive darling who has gone after Trump repeatedly in speeches and gone toe-to-toe with the Republican nominee on Twitter, said she has not spoken to Clinton about how to handle the debate or Trump.
She did not miss her own chance to jab at the New York real estate mogul.
“Trump brags how he got rich in Atlantic City, skipping out on his debts and exploiting bankruptcy laws,” Warren said at a rally at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. “Who does that? A selfish lowlife who will never be president of the United States.”
She went on to call him a “pathetic bully.”
But in appearances in Nashua, Manchester and Durham, Warren told Clinton supporters the election has become more than who will be the next president.
“What this election is about is the health of our families, the health of our economy and the health of our democracy,” she said.
Supporters ready to knock on doors and make the case for Clinton ran the gamut yesterday, from reluctant Bernie Sanders supporters to at least one registered Republican unable to bring himself to vote for Trump.
“I’m a Hispanic and I have a huge problem with the dialogue about immigration,” said Louis Sanchez, a Republican. “For the next 45 days, I’m with her.”
Many, like Warren, said they think Clinton should use the debate to show why she should be president and let Trump make mistakes.
“I’m looking for Trump to define himself as the monster he is,” said Kurt Heiden.