Meghan McCain Presses Cory Booker on Hillary: Is That ‘An Appropriate Way’ For Dems to Speak About GOP Voters?

During his first segment and the early part of his second segment on The View Monday, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) went out of his way to strike a note of bipartisanship.

But when it was Meghan McCain‘s turn to ask questions, she wanted the senator to put his money where mouth was and denounce the longtime standard bearer of his party in the name of bipartisanship.

McCain asked Booker to weigh in on Hillary Clinton‘s comments last week in which she said Trump voters were looking “backwards,” and many white women voted for Donald Trump based on pressure from their husbands.

“I just want to know from you, going forward in 2020, do you think this is an appropriate way for Democrats to speak about Republicans?” McCain asked.

Booker tried his best to hedge.

“The election’s over and is past. And I know that Donald Trump in every other sentence is talking about [former President Barack] Obama and Secretary Clinton. The reality is we have to in this coming ’18 election — forget 2020 — focus on right now, we have to see each other for the truth of who we are,” Booker said. He added, “And so while Donald Trump seems to be intent on separating, dividing, demeaning, degrading, I want Republicans and Democrats to start a new national narrative about how we need each other.”

McCain appeared wholly unsatisfied by the senator’s answer.

“Not to pushback on you, but Hillary makes me feel that way as well. Do you think this messaging from her is hurting your party right now?

Booker again ducked the question.

“Again, Secretary Clinton lost the electoral vote,” he said. “She’s not the president of the United States. My focus is on the future.”

Watch above, via ABC.

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