Elizabeth Warren went after the GOP over Donald Trump. Again.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren again attempted to tie Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and rise in presidential polls to the broader Republican party during an interview with NECN on Thursday.
“Donald Trump is exposing a really ugly streak in the whole Republican Party,’’ Warren told NECN’s Alison King. “This idea of calling Mexicans ‘rapists’ and then women — classifying them as ‘fat pigs’ and ‘bimbos’ — this is a piece of American political theater that really, really is ugly.’’
It’s the third time Warren has attempted to connect Trump’s more controversial statement’s to the undercurrents in the Republican party, particularly related to his immigration platform. Trump has advocated building a wall across the 2,000 miles of Mexico-U.S. border, and has called for denying citizenship to babies born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants.
Back on July 17, she said Republican leaders “cower in the shadow of Donald Trump’’ after Republicans were slow to criticize his comments on undocumented immigrants.
She reiterated that point on July 20, after Trump’s criticism of Sen. John McCain as “not a war hero’’ resulted in swift denunciations.
“I noticed that the other Republican presidential candidates immediately jumped on him for that, and good for them, but where were they when Donald Trump shot off his mouth about Mexican Americans? Where was he then?’’ Warren said. “The answer was they hid in the shadows.’’
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