'You know that’s not true': Cory Booker fires back at CNN host over Harris complaint
25 August 2024
On Sunday morning Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) called out CNN host Jake Tapper for ridiculing Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats for saying the country would start a new chapter if she becomes president in November.
On CNN's "State of the Union," the host pointed to comments made at the convention and pointed to former president Barack Obama. stating, "America is ready for a new chapter" as he endorsed Harris.
"I mean, she's the incumbent vice president," Tapper remarked. "Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the last 16 years. How can Democrats talk about a new chapter, turning the page, you guys are the ones writing the book?"
"Well, you know that that's not true, Jake, because you know politics like I do," Booker shot back. "Right now, we see the MAGA Republicans in Congress killing all kinds of pragmatic policies that we need to get done on the most contentious issues."
"We had a bipartisan deal settled on by Senator James Lankford (R-OK), are right-wing Republican and Sen. Chris Murphy, a blue state Democrat and what killed that deal, what killed that pragmatic progress wasn't the sensible Republicans, but really people who were kowtowing to Donald Trump. His influence is egregious and incredible."
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