PHILADELPHIA — Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren continued bashing Donald Trump Friday, attempting to tie Sen. Pat Toomey to the Republican presidential nominee’s policies and rhetoric as she campaigned for Hillary Clinton and Democratic Senate candidate Katie McGinty.
For most of her 25-minute speech to a crowd heavily populated with college students, Warren directed her ire at Trump and Toomey. In particular, she hit Trump for the ongoing case involving Trump University and his donations to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.
“Let’s just talk about him for a minute — the large, orange elephant in the room,” Warren said to laughs and cheers, before laying out a student-centric attack against the GOP nominee.
“Trump ran his own scam of a university to trick people into turning over their life savings to him. And when he got called out by his own employees and sued by his victims, what did Trump do? Did Mr. Tough Guy stand up and take his licks? No. Did he offer people their money back. No. He whined and he carried on and then he sniveled, and then he has a brilliant idea: attack the judge who is presiding in the lawsuit because the judge’s parents came here from Mexico,” Warren told the crowd. “That’s a Trump move.”
She then went on to hit Trump’s foundation’s donation to Bondi, which took place just before her office dropped it’s investigation into the case.
“What kind of a man cheats students like this? What kind of a man attacks a respected judge because his parents came from Mexico? What kind of a man breaks the law to make illegal contributions to make his fraud investigations go away?” Warren asked. “A small, insecure, money-grubber who will never be president.”
Throughout her speech, she turned the conversation to Toomey as McGinty sat behind and applauded. The Massachusetts senator bashed Toomey for his vote against allowing students to refinance their student loans, his inability to stand up to Wall Street, as well as his “ducks and weaves” from Trump, who he has yet to endorse or spurn.
She rattled off Democratic issue positions in an attempt to fire up the mostly young crowd, which filled up the 800-seat auditorium at the Archeology and Anthropology Museum at the University of Pennsylvania, which included standing ovations in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and for overturning Citizens United.
McGinty and Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey were also in attendance and spoke briefly before Warren took center stage. At the moment, McGinty and Toomey are locked in a heated battle, with the Democratic challenger leading by less than a percentage point, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average.
Warren’s was the first of two major stops by Clinton surrogates in Philadelphia in a week’s span. President Obama is also set to make a stop in Philadelphia next week, where he is set to appear outside the Art Museum on Tuesday.
