Elizabeth Warren, speaking to the Democratic National Convention on Monday, warned delegates on a chaotic first day that Donald Trump was pursuing a strategy of “divide and conquer.”
“When we turn on each other, we can’t unite to fight back against a rigged system,” she added. “I got news for Donald Trump: The American people are not falling for it.”
Warren has been a vocal critic of Trump on Twitter, to the point where Trump has returned fire by calling her “Pocahontas.”
Warren, a leader of the party’s progressive wing in the Senate, focused her speech on Trump’s stoking of racial animosity and fear, but her words also were relevant on a night when many Sanders supporters expressed open dismay on the floor with the Democratic National Committee and booed the mentions of Hillary Clinton.
“Divide and conquer is an old story in America,” Warren said. “Dr. Martin Luther King knew it. After his march from Selma to Montgomery, he spoke of how segregation was created to keep people divided. Instead of higher wages for workers, Dr. King described how poor whites in the South were fed Jim Crow, which told a poor white worker that, quote, ‘no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than the black man.’ Racial hatred was part of keeping the powerful on top.”
She hammered Trump, going through a litany of subjects including his business bankruptcies.
“Trump’s entire campaign is just one more late-night Trump infomercial,” she said.
She made mention of trade deals, but did not reference specifically the Trans Pacific Partnership. She has been a vocal opponent of the trade pact. Some Sanders delegates have been holding “No TPP” signs.
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