Elizabeth Warren DNC Speech Lauds Obama As Fighter For Middle Class

Elizabeth Warren Lauds Obama As Fighter For Middle Class In DNC Speech
CHARLOTTE, NC - SEPTEMBER 04: Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren stands at the podium on stage during a walkthrough during day one of the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena on September 4, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The DNC that will run through September 7, will nominate U.S. President Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
CHARLOTTE, NC - SEPTEMBER 04: Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren stands at the podium on stage during a walkthrough during day one of the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena on September 4, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The DNC that will run through September 7, will nominate U.S. President Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren says President Barack Obama is a fighter for the middle class. And she slams his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, as someone who wants to cut taxes for the rich and big corporations.

Warren is making the comments in speech excerpts released ahead of her prime-time address at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.

Warren says that for years America's middle class "has been chipped, squeezed and hammered."

Obama "gets it," Warren says, because he's spent his life working for the middle class, and she says he will continue to do so.

Warren says that's a contrast with Romney. The Senate candidate says Romney's economic plans will hammer the middle class by pulverizing financial reforms, changing Medicare and vaporizing the Obama's health care law.

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