Cory Booker accuses Pete Buttigieg of ‘doing the NRA’s work for them’

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A day before the October Democratic presidential debate, Cory Booker and Beto O’Rourke are taking swipes at Pete Buttigieg for criticizing their gun policy positions and using the term “gun confiscation.”

“I just don’t think we should wait, to have a fight, over confiscation, when we can win on background checks and assault weapons bans and red flag laws right now,” Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said in a Good Luck America interview on Snapchat released Monday when asked about “mandatory buybacks” for military-style assault weapons.

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