Sen. Cory Booker called out Sen. Bernie Sanders over his support for restoring voting rights to convicted felons still serving prison time, drawing a rare explicit contrast with one of his 2020 rivals
In an interview with PBS Newshour, Booker called the debate over voting rights for incarcerated felons"frustrating" and suggested it distracts from the larger, more urgent question of mass incarceration, which has been a policy focus of Booker's campaign.
But Sanders went one step further during a CNN town hall in New Hampshire earlier this month, during which he was asked whether he would advocate even for the Boston Marathon bomber, terrorists and others to vote — and he said he would.Read More"My own view is that the right to vote is inalienable if you are an American citizen," Sanders told CNN in a separate interview last week.
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