Trump has ‘failed miserably,’ Sen. Elizabeth Warren says at the Democratic convention

Sen. Elizabeth Warren described Joe Biden on Wednesday as a man with “some really good plans” to rebuild an American economy ripped apart by the coronavirus crisis.

“Joe’s plan to build back better includes making the wealthy pay their fair share, holding corporations accountable, repairing racial inequities and fighting corruption in Washington,” Warren said in a Democratic National Convention speech from a preschool in Springfield, Mass.

Warren, known for her wide array of policy plans when she was a Biden rival in the race for the party nomination, said the former vice president would bring back union jobs in manufacturing, create new ones in clean energy, increase Social Security benefits, cancel billions of dollars in student debt and make bankruptcy laws work for families “instead of the creditors who cheat them.”

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Kamala Harris after accepting the vice presidential nomination.  (Win McNamee / Getty Images)

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Kamala Harris addresses the convention.  (Win McNamee / Getty Images)

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Kamala Harris makes a point in her speech.  (Win McNamee / Getty Images)

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Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris.  (Win McNamee / Getty Images)

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Kamala Harris interacts with viewers via videoconference.  (Win McNamee / Getty Images)

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Kamala Harris and her husband with Joe Biden and his wife.  (AFP/Getty Images)

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A screen projects former President Obama during a drive-in convention watch party in Boston.  (Scott Eisen / Getty Images)

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Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.  (Getty Images)

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Former President Obama addresses the Democratic National Convention.  (DNCC via Getty Images)

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Former President Obama.  (DNCC via Getty Images)

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaks at the convention.  (DNCC via Getty Images)

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Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords addresses the convention.  (DNCC via Getty Images)

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Actor and activist Kerry Washington introduces former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  (DNCC via Getty Images)

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  (DNCC via Getty Images)

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Hillary Clinton addresses the convention.  (DNCC via Getty Images)

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Former Labor Secretary and current L.A. County Supervisor Hilda Solis.  (DNCC via Getty Images)

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Carly Dryden of the social movement It’s On Us speaks at the convention.  (DNCC via Getty Images)

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Prince Royce performs during the Democratic National Convention.  (Getty Images)

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Michelle Lujan Grisham, governor of New Mexico, addresses the convention.  (DNCC via Getty Images)

“These plans reflect a central truth: Our economic system has been rigged to give bailouts to billionaires and kick dirt in the face of everyone else,” the Massachusetts senator said.

Warren dropped out of the presidential race in March. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who was vying with Warren to be standard-bearer of the party’s progressive wing, survived as the last remaining alternative to the more moderate Biden. But in April, Sanders also quit the campaign after it became clear he could not win enough delegates to catch up with Biden.

Warren had promised “big structural change” to reduce inequality in the nation’s economy, vowing higher taxes for big corporations and the rich to pay for her ambitious policy agenda, including “Medicare for all” and the cancellation of student debt.

In her convention speech, she said President Trump’s “ignorance and incompetence have always been a danger to our country.”

“COVID-19 was Trump’s biggest test,” she said. “He failed miserably. Today, America has the most COVID deaths in the world, and an economic collapse. And both crises are falling hardest on Black and brown families.

“Millions out of work. Millions more trapped in cycles of poverty. Millions on the brink of losing their homes. Millions of restaurants and stores hanging by a thread. This crisis is bad — and it didn’t have to be this way.”