Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders share a joke about Booker's famous girlfriend at the DNC

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Sen. Cory Booker held a live group video-chat with some of Joe Biden's vanquished rivals during the final night of the Democratic National Convention. Why? "You could think of this sort of like Survivor, on the out interviews of all the people that got voted off the island," Booker explained. His fellow Democrats laughed.

"Bernie, Bernie, don't you laugh, because I got questions for you, like: Why does my girlfriend like you more than she likes me?" Booker asked, referring to actress Rosario Dawson's political leanings. It was meant to be a rhetorical question, but Sanders answered anyway: "Because she's smarter than you, and that's the obvious answer, right?" Booker laughed the hardest, and that exchange set a light tone for what could have been a really awkward Zoom call between colleagues. The other former candidates went on to share nice stories about Biden.

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This isn't the first time the two men have ribbed each other about Dawson.

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But it may be a good sign for the party that these formal rivals can bridge their ideological differences with good-natured jokes. Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.