Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined Democratic candidate for U.S. senate Russ Feingold at a campaign event Friday morning in downtown Madison.
Warren spoke to a large crowd at the Overture Center in downtown Madison to encourage them to vote for Feingold and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Warren said Feingold and Clinton are the right candidates to vote for because they fight for the middle class.
“They know what it means to build a future, not a future just for a small slice at the top, but a future for all of us,” Warren said.
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Warren criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for his racist and misogynist comments. She also criticized incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, for supporting Trump, even though Trump has called women “fat bimbos” and Mexicans “rapists and murderers,” she said.
“If speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. Ron Johnson don’t have the backbone to stand up to Donald Trump, I guarantee they don’t have the backbone to go to Washington to fight for Wisconsin families,” Warren said.
Warren said unlike the Republican candidates, Clinton and Feingold believe in eliminating college loan debt, supporting unions, raising the minimum wage, combating climate change, protecting and expanding social security and treating all races equally.
“Hillary Clinton’s agenda and Russ Feingold’s agenda isn’t just a Democratic agenda,” Warren said. “It is a Wisconsin agenda, it is an American agenda, it is how we build a future.”
Warren encouraged the crowd to vote early right after the event at the Central Madison Public Library.
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