Democratic presidential contender Cory Booker again criticized former Vice President Joe Biden's comments on race, saying his rhetoric is dividing the nation
Democratic presidential contender Cory Booker on Sunday again criticized former Vice President Joe Biden's comments on race, saying the primary front-runner’s rhetoric is dividing the nation.
In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the New Jersey senator said the candidate Democrats nominate to oppose President Donald Trump will need to “talk openly and honestly about race.”“We have one destiny in this nation and right now the vice president to me is not doing a good job at bringing folks together,” Booker said. “In fact, and I’ve heard this from people across the country, he’s causing a lot of frustration and even pain with his words.
poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201906/3073/1155968404_6050404978001_6050405196001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404"Biden has come under attack from his Democratic presidential opponents for his record on race over his decades-long career, including his opposition to federal court-mandated busing to desegregate schools in the 1970s, and his leadership in crafting of a 1994 crime bill that critics point to as resulting in the disproportionate incarceration of racial minorities.
Booker previously criticized Biden for touting his work in the Senate with segregationist senators and called on him to apologize. Biden refused to apologize — and instead called on Booker to apologize for attacking him. “I was talking about the vice president’s comments well before the debate, where he used words, like ‘boy,’ in a way that caused a lot of hurt and harm. And I called him out on it,” Booker said. “And instead of coming forward and saying, ‘I could have said that better,’ or, ‘Let me tell you what I meant,’ he fell into a defensive crouch and tried to reassign blame and said that I should apologize to him.
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