Cory Booker tried a campaign based on love and unity – and it left him at 2% in the polls. Now he’s turning to tough love.
Cory Booker’s campaign of love and unity has him sitting at 2 percent in the polls. So now he’s giving tough love a try.
The newfound pugilism is a striking departure for Booker, the charismatic onetime star mayor of Newark who’s embraced “radical love” as a political philosophy, and it offers a possible preview of next week’s Democratic debate. Kamala Harris’ surprise attack on Biden in the first debate paid off handsomely for her, and Booker desperately needs a momentum-seizing moment.
Booker tied Biden to the 1990s crime bill, which he said “accelerated mass incarceration and inflicted immeasurable harm on Black, Brown, and low-income communities.” He called it “encouraging” to see Biden “finally come around to supporting many of the ideas I and others have proposed” but argued that his proposal “falls short of the transformative change our broken criminal justice system needs.
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