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One of the people hoping to become the next President says our current leader is worse than a racist. On CNN’s State of the Union, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker compared President Trump to segregationist and former Alabama governor George Wallace.

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Booker said Trump is using “racist tropes and racial language for political gains and trying to use this as a weapon to divide our nation against itself.” His comments come a week after tweets from Trump telling four freshman Congress women to “go back” to other countries ignited a firestorm of criticism.

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