Elizabeth Warren Emerges to Attack Donald Trump on Twitter [View all]
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Source: .nytimes.com
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts on Capitol Hill last month. Credit Drew Angerer for The New York Times
Republicans spent an entire primary cycle searching for Donald J. Trump’s weak spot, to little avail.
But Elizabeth Warren, a first-term Democratic senator from Massachusetts, seems to have come up with an answer — or at least a way to rattle the New York billionaire.
On Friday evening, tensions between Mr. Trump and Ms. Warren spilled into a Twitter war, which spanned four hours and more than a dozen posts and insults — “Goofy Elizabeth Warren,” he called her; a sexist, racist, xenophobic “bully,” she countered — on both sides.
The back-and-forth, which played out in public rat-a-tat-tat bursts, 140 characters at a time, also offered a vivid preview of how the six months until Election Day could unfold, with the popular Ms. Warren emerging as a unifier of the Democratic base and Mr. Trump — so far, at least — still unable to resist small provocations as he tries to become a more disciplined general election candidate.
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