I'm with you...as long as you're not black, gay, Muslim, Latino or a woman: Hillary and Bernie team up to troll Trump on Twitter during Republican's convention speech


Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tag-teamed Donald Trump on Twitter tonight as the Republican gave his seminal convention speech.
' "I’m with you*" ' Clinton said, mimicking him. '*Not included: women, African Americans, LGBT people, Muslims, Latinos, immigrants...'
Sanders said, 'Looks like Ted Cruz was right about one thing. Trump does not understand what the Constitution is about. '
Making an evening of the event, the Democratic presidential candidate sent out a photo himself watching Trump on the television screen and tweeting from his tablet that was tagged '#RNCwithBernie.'
Sanders last week acknowledged Clinton as the presumptive Democratic nominee and said at a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, that he intended to vote for her in November.
He shed his taxpayer-funded security detail the same day though he never formally ended his bid for the White House.
Some Sanders supporters are refusing to follow his lead and have declared that they will never vote for Clinton in the general election.
Trump's tried appealing to those disaffected Democrats based on their shared interest in upsetting the political system. Sanders and his supporters have sternly told him it will not work.
'Those who voted for me will not support Trump who has made bigotry and divisiveness the cornerstone of his campaign,' Sanders said as he began his rebuttal to the Republican National Convention.
Tonight Trump waged war on Clinton, telling a giddy crowd eager for an opportunity to shout her down: 'America is far less safe – and the world is far less stable – than when Obama made the decision to put Hillary Clinton in charge of America's foreign policy.'
As if on cue, the crowd began shouting what has this week become the GOP battle cry, 'Lock her up!' Lock her up!'
'Let's defeat her in November,' Trump said. 'I am certain it is a decision he truly regrets.'
The Republican added, 'Her bad instincts and her bad judgment – something pointed out by Bernie Sanders – are what caused the disasters unfolding today.'
Trump later name-checked Sanders again as he promised to tackle a corrupt political system.
'Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it,' he declared.
'Lambasting the system he admittedly leveraged to build his real estate empire as 'rigged,' Trump went after the fallen Democrat's supporters, proclaiming that he 'never had a chance.'
Trump said Sanders' supporters would redirect their support to his movement because he too is opposed to bad trade deals that undermine the country's middle class.
Sanders responded on Twitter with, 'What a hypocrite! If Trump wants to "fix" trade he can start by making his products in the US, not low-wage countries abroad.'
He proceeded to tweet out a list of ways Trump could 'fix trade' - by not manufacturing Trump-branded shirts in Bangladesh, where workers are paid 30 cents an hour, and Mexico and moving production of his ties out of China.
Replying to Trump's 'I alone' can fix the system bit, Sanders asked, 'Is this guy running for president or dictator?'
'Maybe he doesn’t understand that a president has to work with Congress,' Sanders said, bringing up Cruz's call on delegates last night to vote for candidates that will uphold the Constitution.
The Clinton campaign used much of its firepower on her account to ask for donations.
'We are better than this,' she said in one tweet. In another that linked to a donation page she said, 'As of tonight, only one thing is standing between Donald Trump and the presidency: all of us. '
At the conclusion of Trump's speech, which had a running time in the ballpark of an hour and twelve minutes, Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta said in a statement that Trump 'painted a dark picture of an America in decline.'
'And his answer – more fear, more division, more anger, more hate -- was yet another reminder that he is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be President of the United States.'
The former White House official said the Republican nominee for president offered 'no real solutions' to do any of the problems he outlined, 'just more prejudice and paranoia.'
'America is better than this. America is better than Donald Trump. Next week in Philadelphia, Democrats will focus on issues, not anger. We'll offer a positive vision for the future based on lifting America up, not tearing Americans down,' Podesta said.

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