HAMPTON FALLS, N.H. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the two most progressive top-tier candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, defended their ability to defeat President Donald Trump during campaign swings through New Hampshire on Labor Day weekend, offering spirited though somewhat different cases for their general election viability.

Warren had to address the electability question directly, since it came up in a brief question session with voters on Monday following remarks to a crowd of 800 that braved the rain to hear her speak in the backyard of a supporter in the coastal town of Hampton Falls.

Linda Rhodes, a Warren partisan active in the liberal advocacy group Indivisible New Hampshire, asked Warren what to tell people who say they like Warrens ideas but are not sure she can beat Trump in the general election.

Warren began by promoting her pugnacity.

I know how to fight and I know how to win, she said. That is a big part of it. You have to be willing to get in this fight all the way.

She also argued that backing a candidate with ambitious ideas for solving peoples problems, many of which predate Trump, is a surer way to motivate them to show up on Election Day than merely promising to roll back the clock to before Trumps presidency.

Being willing to confront the big problems in this country and then producing plans, real plans, for big structural change thats what people want in this country, Warren said. I think youve got to give people a reason to show up and vote and thats what Im doing.