https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/05/25/elizabeth-warren-just-absolutely-shredded-donald-trump-theres-a-lot-more-like-this-to-come/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-e%3Ahomepage%2FstoryBy Greg Sargent May 25 at 9:21 AM
THE MORNING PLUM:
Early in the 2012 campaign, when top Democratic strategists were debating how to target Mitt Romney, they worked to hone their message about him down to a single, tight, pithy phrase. According to one senior Democrat in on the discussions, they finally settled on this:
“When people like him do well, people like you get screwed.” While this sentence never appeared in any Dem messaging, it functioned as a thematic guide, the senior Dem tells me.
Now Democrats are wrestling with how to deliver a similar message about Trump, while also dealing with a key strategic problem: In many ways, Trump is a very different kind of billionaire from Romney.
Elizabeth Warren delivered an extensive, blistering speech last night about Trump that will serve as a template for how Democrats will attack him — both in terms of how they’ll prosecute his business past and how they’ll try to undercut his central arguments about the economy. Here’s a video of highlights:
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