Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has called on his fellow Democrats to up the ante and “finally kill” the MAGA wing of the Republican Party.
Booker made the call during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper over the weekend.
The senator’s comments come a little over a month after a would-be assassin tried to murder President Donald Trump at a political rally in Pennsylvania.
During a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Tapper asked Booker how Democrats can claim that Vice President Kamala Harris is a “new chapter” for the party.
Tapper noted that, as the Democrat presidential nominee, Harris is the incumbent in the race.
“Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the last 16 years,” Tapper said.
“How can Democrats talk about a new chapter, turning the page?
“You guys are the ones writing the book.”
“Well, you know that that’s not true, Jake, because you know politics like I do,” Booker claimed.
“Right now, we see the MAGA Republicans in Congress killing all kind of pragmatic policies that we need to get done.”
Booker falsely claimed that Trump killed the border deal that was proposed in the U.S. Senate.
In reality, however, the deal received widespread pushback from across the political Right.
The deal was blasted for being an insufficient response to the crisis that has unfolded under the Biden-Harris administration.
In addition, it sought to allow thousands of illegal aliens to flood the border every day without consequence.
It was also packed with pork and sent billions of dollars in taxpayer money to fund the endless war in Ukraine.
Yet despite the obvious issues, Democrats and their corporate media allies insist that the “border” deal was “bipartisan.”
Booker continued by comparing Trump supporters in the Republican Party to a virus “strain” that has infected the GOP.
“His influence is egregious and incredible, from his appointment of three people to the Supreme Court that are now rolling back the most fundamental of our rights and freedoms, like bodily autonomy and reproductive rights,” he claimed.
“So, to say that the MAGA Republicans are not still undermining commonsense, pragmatic, sensible politics is just wrong.
“And what I know this election can do is finally kill that strain of the Republican Party in a way that I think helps the pragmatic Republicans come back.”
Moments after declaring that it’s time to “finally kill” MAGA, Booker claimed that he “can’t stand this tribalism” and the “us versus them” mindset in politics.
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