Presidential candidate Cory Booker on Saturday urged fellow Democrats not to be distracted by vitriol directed at the party's candidates by the man whom they seek to replace.
Asked during a Charleston, South Carolina, town hall meeting how best to oppose President Donald Trump without running an overly negative campaign, the New Jersey senator said Democrats need to look inward and focus on issues important to many of them, such as health care and education.
Booker also said that it's up to activism, not politics, to make substantive changes. He pointed to a longtime South Carolina politician, the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, a Democrat turned Republican who ran for president in 1948 as a Democratic segregationist. "You can't be a Democrat in this country, especially in a state as diverse as Ohio -- you can't be a human being who's awake and not understand that black women are the heart of the Democratic Party," he said. "It's black women that drive this party. It's black women that get progressives like me elected."
Sanders pledged to fight for "economic justice, social justice, racial justice and environmental justice."
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