Biden snaps back at Booker over race remarks backlash – By Rebecca Falconer (Axios) / June 20 2019
Former Vice President Joe Biden refused to apologize for comments he made on race at a fundraiser, suggesting Democratic presidential rival Sen. Cory Booker should do so instead, video captured by CBS News shows.
BREAKING: @JoeBiden responds to Dem rival criticism on comments re: “some civility” w/segregationist senators: “Apologize for what? @CoryBooker should apologize” @CBSNews (w/@JuliaCherner) pic.twitter.com/zFaEXpSNXM
— Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) June 19, 2019
Catch up quick: Booker called Biden out for citing two former Democratic colleagues — the white supremacist segregationists James Eastland and Herman Talmadge — as examples of how the Senate used to be more civil.
- “I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland,” Biden said at a fundraiser. “He never called me ‘boy,’ he always called me ‘son.’”
- “[H]erman Talmadge, one of the meanest guys I ever knew … Well guess what? At least there was some civility. We got things done. We got it finished.”
What he’s saying: Booker later told “CNN Tonight” Biden’s comments were ” deeply disappointing.”
.@CoryBooker says Biden telling him to apologize after the former VP defended comments about segregationist senators is “so insulting and…missing the larger point.”
“This should not be a lesson that someone who is running for President of the [US] should have to be given.” pic.twitter.com/wKKbVKR3zt
— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) June 20, 2019
