Politics & Government

Elizabeth Warren: 'Put On Your Big-Boy Pants,' Donald Trump

The Twitter onslaught continues. Unfortunately.

In just a few painfully long weeks, the November 2016 presidential campaign will mercifully meet its end. With it, we hope, will go Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's anti-Donald Trump diatribes on Twitter.

She can go back to berating bank CEOs, or fending off people's criticisms about her heritage claims. But, please, let the Trump tweetstorms end.

Warren's latest is in response to Trump's dark foreshadowing of "rigged elections" and widespread voter fraud, something President Barack Obama called out (using similar language) on Tuesday.

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The Warren Twitter backlash begins with an accusation of "creepy bullying" and builds its way into a command: "Put on your big-boy pants."

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It's the kind of language that shouldn't be necessary in a political arena — part-lecture, part-public shaming and all of it miles away from the kind of rhetoric a presidential candidate should inspire. Campaigns are always going to be dirty affairs, but after awhile this just gets, to quote Trump, "Sad!"

So, here we go. Time for what we hope (probably futilely) will be one last recap of Warren's online onslaught against the Republican nominee:

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