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“If you want to compare records, and frankly I’m shocked that you do, I am happy to do that,” Booker said. “All of the problems that he is talking about, that he created, I actually led the bill that got passed into law that reverses the damage that your bills that you are, frankly — to correct you, Mr. Vice President — you were bragging about it, calling it the Biden Crime Bill until 2015.
Rather than clarify his history, Biden opted to counter with Booker’s own history: “The bill he talks about is a bill that in [the Obama] administration, we passed … The fact of the matter is, secondly, there was nothing done for the entire eight years [Booker] was mayor. There was nothing done to deal with the police department.
Booker then cut in, providing one of the night's most memorable quotes: “Mr. Vice President, there’s a saying in my community: You’re dipping into the Kool-Aid and you don’t even know the flavor. You need to come to the city of Newark and see the reforms that we’ve put in place. The New Jersey head of the ACLU has said that I embraced reform not just in action but in deed. Sir, you are trying to shift the view from what you created.
To close, the New Jersey Senator centered the discussion on those still stuck inside America's criminal justice system. "This isn’t about the past, sir," he said."This is about the present right now. I believe in redemption. I'm happy you evolved. But you've offered no redemption to the people in prison right now for life."
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