PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren says Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has excited Americans who are rightfully angry. But she says he’s offering no solutions for their problems.
She tells the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that Trump can see voter anger “from the top of Trump Tower” and tells voters that “he and he alone can fixed the rigged system.”
Warren says the only actual clear policy proposal Trump offered in his own nomination acceptance last week was “a stupid wall” that “will never get built.” Trump wants to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
But she says there was nothing in his speech about improving children’s education, increasing incomes or creating.
Warren is offering a harsh assessment of an American economy that she says is tilted against working people.
The liberal favorite and Massachusetts senator says “there’s lots of wealth in America” but “it isn’t trickling down to families like yours.”
Instead, she tells delegates at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, the “system is rigged” as “Americans bust their tails” while “wages stay flat.”
Warren rejects those who say such an economy is a result of a Congress that isn’t working. She says Congress works fine when corporations and the wealthy seek tax breaks and favorable regulations.
But she says, “try to do something for working people,” and the “gridlock” ensues.
Warren says GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s “whole life has been about taking advantage of that rigged system.”
