Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) are still fighting over remarks Biden made at a fundraiser on Tuesday night and Booker's call for Biden to apologize. Biden had used his working relationship with two hard-line segregationist former Democratic senators, James Eastland and Herman Talmadge, to argue that the Senate used to be more civil and amenable to getting things done with people you disagree with.
On Wednesday evening, Biden told reporters he "could not have disagreed with Jim Eastland more," Eastman "was a segregationist" and "I ran for the United States Senate because I disagreed with the views of the segregationists," and his point had been that "you don't have to agree, you don't have to like the people in terms of their views, but you just simply make the case and you beat them."
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