Cory Booker fired back at 2020 rival Joe Biden after the former VP said it was the New Jersey senator, not he, who should apologize over the recent controversy in which Biden spoke fondly of his time working with segregationist senators
Speaking at a Tuesday fundraiser, Biden pointed to Sens. James Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia, two Southern Democrats who opposed civil rights and desegregation, as examples of senators with whom he worked in the 1970s despite not agreeing with their views.Joe Biden refuses to apologize, getting in his own way on raceSeveral of Biden's 2020 rivals, including Booker, quickly criticized him for praising segregationists and called on him to apologize.
"Speaking to CNN's Don Lemon on"CNN Tonight," Booker was defiant, saying he believed Biden's comments were"so insulting."Read MoreWho's No. 2 in 2020?"I know that I was raised to speak truth to power, and I will never apologize for doing that, and Vice President Biden shouldn't need this lesson," he said.
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