Asked if his “nice guy” approach appeals to Democrats, Sen. Cory Booker tells ABC’s jonkarl that Pres. Trump “wants us to fight him on his turf”: “We will not succeed by showing the worse of who we are.”
2020 presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker is optimistic about his comprehensive gun control proposal's chances of success despite the partisan pushback it received in the week following its release, and compared to the potential battle over its implementation to the civil rights movement in an interview on"This Week" that aired Sunday.
"In my short time on this planet, 50 years, we've had more people killed by gun violence than every single war combined from the Revolutionary War through World War I, World War II, Vietnam," he said."And what have we done? Massacre in the synagogue. We do nothing. Massacre here in South Carolina in a church. We do nothing. Massacre in my mom’s city of Las Vegas. We do nothing.
"The first thing I'm going to do is to dramatically lower costs for Americans, and expand insurance," the senator said. Booker responded,"Again, as I’m telling you, I have a clear goal in mind that I share with all Americans, health care a right. I think the best way to get there is Medicare for all. I'm also a realist. As a former mayor who got things done who knows that you can't hold progress hostage for some purity."
In April, the chairman of the Polk County, Iowa Democrats summarized some of the criticisms of Booker's outlook, explaining that Booker's message was"compelling," but"the Democratic base is angry as hell" and its primary voters"want to fight," according to Politico.
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