‘I’m tired’: Cory Booker says Trump pushed ‘every racially divisive nerve possible’

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New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker said he’s exhausted by President Trump’s rhetoric on race.

The longest-tenured black Democrat currently in the Senate, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination, took issue with comments Trump made during a campaign rally in Ohio on Monday. There, the president repeated a claim that Booker, who made affordable housing a central tenet of his campaign, would destroy the suburbs across the country if he worked with a President Joe Biden on housing policies.

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