Booker chases breakout moment by going after Biden

[left-of-center2012]

After struggling to gain momentum in the 2020 presidential race, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has been given a chance for a breakout moment at next week's debate: a faceoff with former Vice President Joe Biden, with whom he has already tussled for weeks.

Booker has already been one of Biden’s sharpest and most vocal critics among the 2020 contenders, notably going after Biden's comments about working with segregationist senators decades ago. Booker has also gone hard after Biden on criminal justice reform, eliciting a stark defense from the former vice president's camp on Wednesday, signaling a feud that's becoming intensely personal.

Booker, a junior senator from New Jersey and former mayor of Newark, has struggled to stand out in a crowded field of more than two dozen candidates. Booker has yet to break into the top tier of candidates and has yet to qualify for the fall debates, which will have much tougher criteria.

Entry will require candidates to register at least 2 percent support in four or more national polls or statewide polls in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina as well as donations from at least 130,000 individual donors.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/454818-booker-chases-breakout-moment-by-going-after-biden

[hlthe2b]

1. I'm not sure I can stand to watch the debates (at least 2nd night) live... I may have to record

and watch later. I am so tense with the mere thought we'd not be able to remove/defeat Trump.

This is not reducing my dread and anxiety, damn it!

[EveHammond13]

11. agree. I can't stand to watch Dems tearing each other down while trump laughs.

[emmaverybo]

2. Sad that he does not have enough support himself, so he has to go after Biden's; not much of a

record to give him that support, so he tries to tear down Biden’s. I used to respect him. No more.

[highplainsdem]

3. A former DNC official quoted in that article says what Booker is doing makes him look desperate.

Exactly.

[oasis]

4. We'll not forget. Cory will be in defense mode for years to come.

[defacto7]

5. I just don't see the use in supporting Booker anymore.

He's not going to be the one who takes tRump down so all he is doing is undermining democrats who may have a chance. We do not need division in the party.

[msongs]

6. cory who? nt

[Ilsa]

7. He saw that it helped Harris, so now we have a repeat, but

it looks a little like a young man pouncing on an older man. I'm not sure these are the optics he was looking for.

[treestar]

13. And being long known and known as being decent,

it seems like attacks on Joe just backfire.

They should save it for the Orange Dotard Moron.

[Ilsa]

14. I tend to agree.

Sure, the Primaries are testing grounds, but we shouldn't deliver ammo to the Greedy Old Pricks.

[Cha]

8. Chase Away Cory..

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[jalan48]

9. What about that unity pledge?

[tritsofme]

10. He's not a serious contender, no matter how much he slimes the likely nominee.

He should consider how these sorts of gratuitous attacks, that will do nothing to help his quixotic campaign, will impact his influence in Washington under the next Democratic administration..

[treestar]

12. It doesn't seem to work either

besides making him look negative.