Why Not Cory Booker?
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🗓️ 3 December 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Senator Cory Booker still hasn’t made the cut for the next Democratic debate, despite having all the moderate bona fides that a suburban voter could want. Why has Booker failed to pop up in the polls?
Guest: Slate’s Jordan Weissmann. Read his piece, “Dear Moderates: Please Give Cory Booker a Chance.”
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| 0:00.0 | Quick heads up here at the top. |
| 0:01.6 | This episode is with Jordan Weissman. |
| 0:03.2 | He pretty much always gets salty on this show. |
| 0:06.0 | So you've been warned. |
| 0:12.1 | At this point in the Democratic primary, I got to tell you, I was not expecting more candidates. |
| 0:19.4 | I was like, this clown car is full. |
| 0:23.5 | Nope. |
| 0:24.3 | Nope. |
| 0:27.2 | I wanted to get Slates Jordan Weissman into the studio to talk Democratic politics with me, |
| 0:32.4 | because both of us were kind of baffled by this moment. |
| 0:35.5 | First on CBS this morning, the newest Democrat who wants to take on President Trump next fall. |
| 0:41.8 | All of a sudden, we have Mike Bloomberg coming out of the woodwork. |
| 0:44.9 | We've got Deval Patrick, former governor of Massachusetts. |
| 0:48.7 | I think what I've decided is you can't know if you can break through if you don't get out there and try. |
| 0:53.9 | Everyone's just rolling up in here. |
| 0:55.6 | Yeah, just why the hell not? |
| 1:01.1 | The Democratic presidential field. |
| 1:03.5 | It's simultaneously expanding and contracting. |
| 1:07.5 | Just yesterday, Montana Governor Steve Bullock dropped out of the race. |
| 1:11.6 | Well, at the same time, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg spent $31 million to jump into it, pumping out a flashy new ad campaign. |
| 1:21.7 | Mike Bloomberg for president, jobs creator, leader, problem solver. |
| 1:26.9 | It's going to take all three to build back a country. |
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