PHILADELPHIA – New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker said Donald Trump did his party a “disservice” with his acceptance speech last Thursday.
“I listened to the vitriol, to the bile, to the hate that he spewed at the Republican Party’s convention and it did a disservice to the Republican Party,” Booker said at a breakfast for Democratic Pennsylvania delegates on Monday.
“That’s why 28 GOP members of the Senate didn’t show up,” he added. “They knew that a man who stands up and makes fun of a reporter because of his disability, they knew that a man who makes demeaning and disparaging comments about women, they knew that they didn’t want to be close to that.”
While Trump’s acceptance speech at last week’s GOP convention was praised by his supporters as an open and honest assessment of the challenges and threats Americans face, Democrats claimed the candidate engaged in fearmongering.
Contrasting his party with Republicans and Trump, Booker said Democrats are the “party of we and not the party of me.”
He continued, “We’re a party that wants to build some people up, not tear some people down. We are the party of civil rights, women’s rights, of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights.”
“We are the party that knows its nation is stronger when we are together,” Booker added, drawing a standing ovation.
