2020 Democrat Cory Booker issued a rare rebuke to Joe Biden's comments on segregationists

Cory Booker.
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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) doesn't usually criticize other 2020 candidates. He made an exception for Joe Biden.

At a Tuesday fundraiser, the former vice president mentioned how, during his Senate stint in the 1970s, he preserved "civility" with then-senators James Eastland and Herman Talmadge. Biden didn't mention that the two Democrats were segregationists, but lauded how he never considered them "the enemy" and still "got things done."

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.