Speaking to reporters at the Massachusetts State Democratic Convention in Lowell on Saturday, Senator Elizabeth Warren sided with Bernie Sanders in the ongoing fight over superdelegates in the Democratic primary.

Sanders hopes to defy odds with turnout: 'California loves a comeback' Read more

“I’m a superdelegate,” Warren said, “and I don’t believe in superdelegates.”

Sanders has railed against the use of superdelegates, individuals who are seated at the Democratic National Convention based on their holding either elected office or a party position, rather than being apportioned after primary elections.

Although superdelegates have been part of the Democratic primary process for more than three decades and Sanders’ chief strategist, Tad Devine, played a key role in creating them, the Vermont senator has said they are an undemocratic check on voters.

Superdelegates favour Clinton overwhelmingly ahead of this year’s convention, which will take place in Philadelphia in July. But the former secretary of state still has an overwhelming lead without them.

Warren’s statement on Saturday showed that she is continuing to chart an independent path and may yet side with the Vermont senator if he pushes to reform the primary process, regardless of this year’s result.

In her speech in Lowell, Warren repeated recent fierce attacks on Donald Trump, once again calling the presumptive Republican presidential nominee “a small, insecure money-grubber”.



She also called Trump “fraudster-in-chief” and aggressively criticized Trump University, the for-profit business venture currently facing law suits in New York and California.

“It was like a used-car dealership, except that’s not fair to used-car dealerships,” Warren said.

Warren has long engaged in tit for tat attacks with Trump, taking to Twitter to bash the Republican nominee as a bully, a liar and a candidate who “has built his campaign on racism, sexism, and xenophobia”.

She also attacked Trump in a speech at the Center for Popular Democracy on 25 May for “drooling over the idea of a housing meltdown” back in 2008.

Trump has responded by repeatedly calling the Massachusetts senator “goofy”, as well as “Pocahontas,” a reference to a 2012 campaign controversy over whether Warren has Native American ancestry.