Presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker said Friday he was “taken aback” by 2020 Democratic nomination rival Mike Blomberg’s "problematic" description of the New Jersey senator as “well-spoken,” saying it plays into "tired tropes" about African Americans. Booker said "there’s more billionaires in the 2020 race than there are black people." With Harris out of the race, Booker and former Massachusetts Gov. BOOKER, BIDEN, COULD GAIN GROUND FROM HARRIS' DROPPING OUT, STRATEGISTS SAYAsked about Booker’s criticism, Bloomberg said in the CBS interview that "Cory Booker endorsed me a number of times, and I endorsed Cory Booker a number of times." Regardless of that controversy, the following year after he captured the Democratic presidential nomination – Obama named Biden as his running mate.

Source: Fox News December 06, 2019 19:41 UTC