biden and he said yes. he told me that beto o rourke was ready and prepared to take that message directly and bluntly to biden if he got on stage with him. i watched him give that yesterd myself, okay, there s somebody who seems ready to go directly at biden. let s see if they end up on the same stage. he s not going to get that opportunity. but yeah, o rourke needs to reclaim what he had when he entered this race. booker is an interesting one as well. booker is somebody, look, if you know cory booker s story, you can find articles written about him 10 years ago, 20 years ago, before he was the mayor of newark. he s a u.s. senator now. predicting this guy will be a president of the united states someday. such an impressive public speaker. such an impressive communicator. there is an opportunity. get three or four at-bats for booker to show some of that and be introduced to people who haven t seen it or have forgotten about it. what is joe biden going to
where there are three, four dozen african-americans in the house. and often they represent districts that are protected by the voting rights act, majority/minority districts and there s is an informal ceiling imposed by state democratic parties they view condition whose come from the districts not as electable statewide, there s a stigma attached to nap when you look at cory booker s story, jamelle, i m curious what you make of it. comes from a majority black city, newark but the most popular democrat in new jersey, national rock star. what do you take from the booker story as a lesson nationally? mr. i think the booker story is ace confirmation, if you are black politician with national ambitions your first order of business to this will sound terrible get far out of your majority/minority area as quickly as possible. right. i think if you looked at barack obama, it s a very good thing in his political career that he lost the first house