Elizabeth Warren Campaigns with Hillary Clinton in Ohio

Cincinnati, OH — Both clad in blue and wearing beaming smiles, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton took the stage together for the first time Monday, offering a rousing call to unite behind Clinton and, perhaps even more pointedly, against Donald Trump.

The Massachusetts Democrat teamed up with Clinton at a Cincinnati, Ohio, campaign stop where the two displayed a united front and helped fan the flames of Democrats' fury toward Republicans' presumptive nominee.

Warren came armed with what's now become her trademark: scathing critiques of Trump.

For example, "When Donald Trump says he’ll make America great, he means make it even greater for rich guys just like Donald Trump.”

Or, "He is a small, insecure money-grubber who fights for no one but himself."

Warren, beloved by the liberal left, has been hammering away at Trump since he became Republicans' presumptive nominee. After (finally) endorsing Clinton this month, she's now adding that firepower to the Democrat's campaign.

"She fights for us," Warren said of Clinton Monday, an echo of her endorsement.

The Clinton campaign is reportedly vetting Warren as a possible vice presidential pick, and many saw Monday's rally as a tryout for the role. Attacks levied by Republicans Monday help paint a picture of how such a pick might play out.

Massachusetts' state GOP party hit Warren for her "hypocrisy" in embracing Clinton.

"Elizabeth Warren travels with lots of baggage as she joins Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail," Mass. GOP Chairman Kirsten Hughes said in a statement. "She carries her prior attacks on Hillary Clinton's coziness with Wall Street and the hypocrisy of her work as a hired corporate gun fighting the Clinton Administration to deny health care to coal miners. The Clinton campaign will need a bigger bus for Warren's baggage."

For her part, Clinton spent the beginning of her speech lavishing praise on Warren and making clear she and the senator are simpatico when it comes to Wall Street. She talked up the senator's leadership on student debt and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — "what standing up and fighting to right economic wrongs looks like."

"And I must say, I just love to see how she gets under Donald Trump's thin skin," Clinton said, to cheers. "She exposes him for what he is: temperamentally unfit and unqualified to be president of the United States."

Clinton, who's been seen as taking a back seat to challenger Bernie Sanders' strong stance on financial reform, also played up Warren's time taking financial executives to task in Congress.

"Remember, she is speaking for every single American who is frustrated and fed up. She is speaking for all of us, and we thank her for that!" Clinton shouted, to another swell of cheers.

Trump, for his part, returned fire with lines of attack he's previously rolled out against both women:

Following Warren's Ohio appearance, Trump doubled down in an MSNBC News interview, calling the Massachusetts senator a "racist" and a "fraud."

Subscribe to Boston Patch for free local newsletters, breaking alerts

>> Photo by Darlene Rogers, via @KathyGroob. Used with permission.