Sen. Cory Booker said he was “a little angry” that his friend Sen. Kamala Harris dropped out the 2020 Democratic presidential race.
“We started with one of the most diverse fields in our history,” the New Jersey Democrat said Tuesday on MSNBC. “It’s a damn shame now that the only African American woman in this race, who has been speaking to issues that need to be brought up, is now no longer in it.”
He added the Democratic field is “spiraling towards” a point where there would be “no diversity” on the December debate stage. Neither Booker, who is black, nor Julian Castro, who is Hispanic, have qualified for the next debate.
Castro, 45, slammed media coverage of Harris as being unfair during her run. “I will say that the way that the media have treated Sen. Harris in this campaign has been something else,” he said. “The way they’ve held her to a different standard, a double standard, has been grossly unfair and unfortunate.”
Harris’s campaign came under criticism from campaign aides who dished dirt anonymously to Politico and the New York Times in the days leading up to her withdrawal.
