Hillary Clinton unleashed one of her most energetic supporters today to wallop rival Donald Trump, with Senator Elizabeth Warren warning Americans that the provocative billionaire will "crush you into the dirt" if he is elected president.
With the battle of the presumptive presidential nominees heating up four and a half months before the election, Democrat Clinton campaigned for the first time alongside Warren, who came out swinging against Republican Trump in a likely preview of her attack-dog role in the campaign.
The Massachusetts senator, discussed as a possible Clinton vice presidential pick, introduced Clinton at a raucous rally in Cincinnati in swing state Ohio, and painted Trump as a "thin-skinned bully" who is only in the presidential race for himself.
"You want to see goofy? Look at him in that hat," Warren said, referring to Trump's propensity to deliver campaign speeches wearing a cap with his logo, "Make America Great Again" -- and his nickname for the progressive senator on Twitter as "Goofy Elizabeth Warren."
"When Donald Trump says he'll make America great, he means make it even greater for rich guys just like Donald Trump," she said.
"And watch out, because he will crush you into the dirt to get whatever he wants," she thundered. "That's who he is."
Warren's support for working-class Americans has made her a liberal icon, and she appeared to relish her opportunity to lay into Trump on the national stage.
"You know I could do this all day," she said.
Like Clinton, Warren blasted Trump's very public self-congratulation about predicting the British people's vote last week to leave the European Union.
Trump cheered Brexit because "he said, hey, it might bring more rich people to his new golf course," Warren said.
"What kind of a man does that?"
Trump had praised the so-called "Brexit" decision during his Friday trip to Scotland where he re-inaugurated one of his golf properties.
Warren stressed that while Trump hones in on fear and negativity, Clinton is the optimist in the race.
"Hillary has brains, she has guts, she has thick skin and steady hands, but most of all, she has a good heart," Warren said. "That's what America needs, and that's why I'm with her. Are you with her?" she said to a loud roar.
Clinton, who has ratcheted up her criticism of The Donald in recent weeks, heaped praise on Warren as someone who knocks Trump off balance.
