Sen. Cory Booker calls for party unity at DNC, adds 'we are called to be a nation of love'

Monday, July 25, 2016
PHILADELPHIA -- Cory Booker called for the Democratic party to unite around Hillary Clinton - and the Democratic senator from New Jersey says Clinton would be a champion for the poor as president.

He says Clinton would measure America's greatness not by the number of millionaires and billionaires, but by how few people are living in poverty.
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"Hillary knows when workers make a fair wage, it doesn't just help their families, it builds a stronger, more durable economy that expands opportunity and makes all of us Americans wealthier," Booker said.

Booker says the country doesn't always have to agree, but the U.S. can't became a place "where our highest aspiration is that we just tolerate each other."

"We are not called to be a nation of tolerance, we are called to be a nation of love," he said.

** Watch the Booker's full speech in the video player above (note: it's 20 minutes long) **

He said the country cannot be seduced into cynicism about our politics.



"Here in Philadelphia, let us declare again that we will be a free people. Free from fear and intimidation," Booker said. "Let us declare again that we are a nation of interdependence, and that in America love always trumps hate. Let us declare, so that generations yet unborn can hear us. We are the United States of America; our best days are ahead of us."
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Booker also champions debt-free college, which he says represents the best of the Democratic party.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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