Elizabeth Warren is starting to sound like Hillary Clinton's anti-Trump weapon

In California on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton hit Donald Trump over his newly surfaced 2006 and 2007 remarks that he was "excited" about the housing market to burst, because if it did, he would "would go in and buy like crazy” to make money. "He actually said he was hoping for the crash that caused hard-working families in California and across the country to lose their homes," Clinton said. Some 3,000 miles away, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was singing from the same hymnal.

"Donald Trump was drooling over the idea of a housing meltdown — because it meant he could buy up a bunch more property on the cheap," Warren said at a gala for the Center for Popular Democracy. “What kind of a man does that? Root for people to get thrown out on the street? Root for people to lose their jobs? Root for people to lose their pensions?" (She answered her own question: "A small, insecure moneygrubber who doesn't care who gets hurt, so long as he makes some money off it.")

The similar messaging "was not entirely a coincidence," The Washington Post reports. Warren has deliberately not endorsed anyone in the Democratic primary, and Warren hitting Trump in concert with Clinton would allow the Democratic frontrunner to "begin the general-election battle against Trump, but also beginning the difficult task of unifying the fractured Democratic Party." Warren's Trump takedown, adds The Wall Street Journal, "suggested she may be willing to work with the Clinton campaign more directly to win the White House in November."

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Trump jumped in the conversation at his rally in Albuquerque, calling Warren "Pocahontas" and Clinton a "low life" for playing his housing comments in a campaign ad. "I'm a businessman, that's what I'm supposed to do," Trump added. You can watch Warren's hit at Trump below. Peter Weber