‘You can’t have it both ways’: Booker blasts Biden for invoking Obama ‘when convenient’

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Sen. Cory Booker accused Joe Biden of opportunistically invoking his past as vice president with Barack Obama during the second Democratic presidential debate Wednesday night.

The New Jersey Democrat accused Biden of inconsistently using Obama to promote certain policies and hiding behind a veil of privacy on sticking points in Obama’s legacy. Biden had cited his past with Obama earlier in the debate, defending the Obama administration’s healthcare and immigration policies.

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