Elizabeth Warren Returns to Philly to Stump for Katie McGinty, Hillary Clinton

PHILADELPHIA, PA — Elizabeth Warren returned to Philadelphia Friday, reprising the fiery role as uber-liberal Hillary Clinton surrogate she debuted in the same city during the Democratic National Convention this summer.

On this visit, the Massachusetts senator stumped at the Penn Museum alongside Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate Katie McGinty, bolstering her bid to oust sitting Republican Sen. Pat Toomey.

"That's your senator, and that's the GOP philosophy. It's more important to protect tax loopholes for the rich and powerful," Warren told an enthusiastic Philly crowd. "The game is rigged, and the Republicans rigged it. That's why Katie McGinty, Hillary Clinton and I are going to work to un-rig it!"

Warren mixed her patented brand of righteous rage and professorial lecture with her personal story. Less present in her Pennsylvania appearance was her Trump-baiting Twitter persona.

But that's not to say she left those jabs online.

"Let's just talk about him for a minute, the large orange elephant in the room," she said of Trump, as the crowd cheered and laughed along in apparent anticipation. "You, like, can't decide where to start."

Warren claimed education would be her only comment on the subject, but she couldn't resist lighting into Trump over recent pay-for-play allegations swirling around past financial contributions to Florida's attorney general.

From there, Warren pivoted to Toomey, seeking to shackle the longtime Pennsylvania Republican to the top of his party's ticket.

"Your big, brave senator," Warren said, is trying to "duck and weave" by refusing to disavow Trump.

"After everything Donald Trump says, Pat Toomey still won't say he won't vote for him," Warren said, eliciting boos as she enumerated Trump's controversial comments.

But Toomey, whose Senate seat is considered vulnerable this November, isn't exactly trumpeting his support for Trump.

He was one of many Republicans who opted not to attend the GOP convention where Trump accepted the party's nomination, and in a May op-ed, Toomey wrote: "Trump was not my first, second or third choice. I object to much in his manner and his policies. ... I find his campaign highly problematic.”

“As a Republican elected official, I am inclined to support the nominee of my party," he wrote in that op-ed. "There could come a point at which the differences are so great as to be irreconcilable.”

As Warren took pains to make clear Friday, that breaking point has not yet arrived.

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