Booker: Trump’s NABJ remarks an effort to ‘deflect and divide’

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said former President Trump’s comments on Wednesday questioning Vice President Harris’s heritage as a Black woman represent an effort to “deflect” from key issues in the election and “divide” the country.

“This is a standard playbook for Donald Trump to try to deflect and divide,” Booker said in an interview on MSNBC’s “11th Hour” on Wednesday.

“He brings up things that he knows will be considered outrageous by people on our side of the aisle, and...