In Senate Hearing, Booker and Harris Show Their Styles
When pressing a Trump Cabinet official on hot-button topics, one potential 2020 candidate invoked seething rage, while the other showed prosecutorial precision.
By David Catanese, Senior Politics Writer |Jan. 16, 2018, at 6:17 p.m.
As the newest members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, they had to wait to question Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Capitol Hill. But as politically ambitious Democrats – and two of the only three African-Americans ever to serve on the committee – the performances Tuesday of Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Sen. Kamala Harris of California were among the most anticipated.
Seated next to each other, with only a few feet between them, Booker and Harris each conveyed personal rage about not only the alleged disparaging comment made by President Donald Trump regarding African countries, but the inability of Nielsen to recall the remark.
"I did not hear that word used," Nielsen said when asked whether Trump employed the vulgarity "shithole" to characterize countries he viewed unfavorably for immigration. The president also reportedly expressed a preference for immigrants from the Scandinavian country of Norway.
How Booker and Harris went about addressing Nielsen's response and the broader controversy engulfing the president underscored the contrasting approaches of the two potential White House aspirants who may each seek a face-off with Trump in 2020.
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Spineless dems should sit up & take note! 
