On the road with Cory Booker in New Hampshire

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BY NICOLE SGANGA

JULY 17, 2019 / 9:29 AM / CBS NEWS

Cutting down interstate 93 in a Winnebago Sightseer, Cory Booker rattles off a list of authors on his Audible queue—Michael Lewis, Jon Meacham, Cornel West. "I don't read fiction," Booker interjects on his Granite State RV tour.

The candidate absorbs a mix of scripture and biography – reminders, he contends, that the "fairer eye of history" will "look askance in a negative way at what has been done." Poised in a beige recliner inexplicably glued to the trailer floor, Booker leans in. "Everything from trying to do a Muslim ban to throwing children in cages to separating families, is a kind of constant moral vandalism."

"The people we make monuments to," Booker contends, "sometimes we can distort them." The bus stops at a red light as the analogy lurches to present day. "I think the leaders who are seen as the greatest in this country are the leaders who are united. The leaders that elevated Americans, not denigrated them. So I just don't see this president faring well in the rearview of our generations."

Booker flits from foreign policy (we should not move back the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem) to natural gas (we need to electrify transportation but can't just flip a switch) to D.C. statehood (he's all for it). Noticeably absent from the senator's policy deliberations are the words "Donald Trump," a proper noun that does not surface over the course of a 32 minute conversation spanning 25 miles.

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