Booker tries to have it both ways, pleading for comity while attacking Biden

Published August 1, 2019 7:07pm ET



For a guy who pleaded repeatedly for party comity during the Detroit Democratic primary debate, Sen. Cory Booker sure did a lot of attacking of his own.

“The person that’s enjoying this debate most right now is Donald Trump, as we pit Democrats against each other, while he is working right now to take away Americans’ healthcare,” the New Jersey senator complained Wednesday. “[T]his pitting against progressives against moderates, saying one is unrealistic and the other doesn’t care enough, that to me is dividing our party and demoralizing us in face of the real enemy here.”

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