At a press conference on Tuesday, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) spoke about the record of former President Donald Trump.
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00:00Okay, Sean O'Brien has said he's not going to endorse this year, said he'd be hedging
00:13his bets in case of a Trump victory.
00:16If Trump ends up winning, what do you think, Ms. Shuler, what do you think of the chances
00:23that the Teamsters and Sean O'Brien would be able to influence a Trump administration
00:28to move away from the Republican historic opposition to policies that benefit unionization
00:35and union workers?
00:36What we're focused on right now is drawing the contrast between these two candidates.
00:44The track record is clear that in Trump's first term, we've seen this movie before.
00:50We gave him a chance.
00:51In fact, when he first got elected, the labor movement said, we're going to call balls and
00:55strikes.
00:56We're going to see how this plays out, and fast forward four years later, the record
01:01is very, very clear.
01:02It speaks for itself, and you've heard it all today about gutting the National Labor
01:06Relations Board.
01:07That's the board that actually adjudicates when workers rise up and take a risk and try
01:12to form a union.
01:14That board decides whether they get to do that and whether it's stacked with people
01:18who actually can see clearly and stand on the side of workers or stand on the side of
01:23corporations.
01:24Our labor laws are badly broken in this country.
01:26They're tilted toward corporations.
01:27Now we're in a position where we have a Biden NLRB, who is actually giving workers a fighting
01:34chance when they take those risks to form their union and have their voices heard.
01:40We've seen the track record of ... We've seen this movie before, four years of Donald Trump,
01:45and now we see what it's like to actually have a president who will stand up and fight
01:49for working people.
01:50The fact that these investments alone have had labor standards attached to them, that
01:56taxpayer dollars are investing in things like infrastructure and bringing whole new industries
02:01to this country, like semiconductors, that they have to actually be good, high-wage,
02:07high-row jobs, because that's what we deserve as a country.
02:12We deserve for people to actually make a decent living, to have health care security, to have
02:16retirement security.
02:17That's what the policies of this administration have done.
02:20I just ... Again, it's ... I respect the questions, and I respect the journalists who are here,
02:26but it doesn't take much to see that you had four years of Donald Trump.
02:32Whatever they're going to say right now, they're belying the facts of what they've done.
02:39Again, I don't ... Whatever they're writing on a platform on women's reproductive rights
02:45is so undermined by what Donald Trump did.
02:49He put three Supreme Court justices on the Supreme Court who, after generations of Roe
02:59v. Wade, ripped it down and cast us into a world where in states like mine, we are raising
03:05money literally for all of the women who can afford to come from states where you can't
03:10get an abortion, where you can't get reproductive rights, where you are literally in need of
03:17care to save your life because your child can't come to term, but you can't get the
03:24care in your state.
03:26We're raising money for women, and women in my state are terrified because they've heard
03:32what Donald Trump and other congressional Republicans have said about a national abortion
03:37ban.
03:38It doesn't take much to just simply look at the four years of Donald Trump and see
03:44what you got, an erosion of women's rights, an erosion of reproductive rights, an erosion
03:51of abortion rights, a destruction and attack on Planned Parenthood.
03:55I don't care what they say.
03:58You have evidence.
04:00This labor confusion should not be there.
04:03He has clarity.
04:05He picked for his Secretary of Labor somebody that was avowedly anti-union.
04:13Joe Biden's Department of Labor is doing so much great work to protect workers, to fight
04:21for workers' rights.
04:23We're in the worst heat wave right now in America.
04:29It's stunning what's happening.
04:32Joe Biden is working to do everything he can to get laws and actions through OSHA to protect
04:39workers and give them things like president and president, like crazy things like rest
04:45breaks.
04:46What a concept.
04:48And what did Trump's OSHA do?
04:51What did Trump's NRLB do, National Labor Relations Board?
04:55I mean, I saw what they did during the pandemic with meatpacking plans where people were dying
05:01in unsafe work conditions.
05:02They actually supported measures to speed up lines and get around protections for labor.
05:09This is a clear contrast, America.
05:12We have the president and vice president the most pro-union, pro-women's rights, pro-healthcare
05:19president in my lifetime.
05:21And it's not rhetoric.
05:23There are receipts for all of this.
05:27And you have a president whose four years was an attack on unions, an attack on organizing,
05:32an attack on labor protections.
05:35And when it comes to actually creating jobs, this is the stunning thing.
05:41You have two different presidencies to compare.
05:46Let's look at the numbers.
05:48Who created the most jobs on their watch?
05:51Donald Trump, who is with Herbert Hoover on the least amount of created jobs, in fact,
05:56lost total jobs, or perhaps one of the greatest job creators in the modern presidency.
06:05Let's go to manufacturing jobs.
06:08A president whose rhetoric, who ran around this country saying he was going to create
06:14jobs, but didn't, versus the president that has created the biggest boom in manufacturing
06:23jobs in decades.
06:25Let's talk about union jobs.
06:28We have a president that bragged that he was going to do infrastructure for America.
06:33There's an infrastructure month, I think.
06:35There's an infrastructure week, I think.
06:37I think he had infrastructure days, but never produced an infrastructure bill.
06:42And then we have a president, Joe Biden, who along with the congressional Democrats,
06:48was able to bring about a bipartisan infrastructure bill, which is the biggest investment in infrastructure
06:56ever, and then said, stop, wait, we're going to make sure those are union jobs.
07:01There are kids in cities like Milwaukee and Camden that are getting apprenticeships in
07:09unions right now because of Joe Biden and congressional Democrats.
07:15This isn't complicated.
07:17You don't need a PhD.
07:20You don't need to be Will Warner and Bernstein and have an investigative crew to simply lay
07:25two presidencies side by side and see who has the best record on job creation, union
07:31jobs, manufacturing jobs, women's protections, safety and security at the workplace.
07:37We know what we have.
07:39And so all of our jobs is to simply tell the truth, to look at the numbers, look at the data.
07:46I'm a man of faith and God we trust, but in politics, show me the numbers.
07:52In the last four years, under the worst of circumstances, a global recession, globally,
08:01I travel around the world and see other countries struggling.
08:04The number one economy in the world is the United States of America.
08:11The strongest manufacturing sector in the world is the United States of America.
08:18Under this president and Democrats in Congress.
08:24It's not complicated, folks.
08:26And the last thing, I'm sorry, I'm sitting back there trying to be patient, let these
08:30experts speak.
08:37I have a simple test when I support a leader or not.
08:40Simple test.
08:42You cannot lead the people if you don't love the people.
08:48Not just people who vote for you.
08:53Do you love the people?
08:57I think the way people talk about other folks in America is more of a reflection of who you are
09:03than who the person you're talking about is.
09:10I've listened to Donald Trump, I've known him for years.
09:14Way before he was a politician.
09:17And I listen to the demeaning and degrading ways he talks about people and places.
09:26The way he talks about women who don't support him.
09:30The way he talks about people in his own party.
09:32God, the disgusting things he said about my former governor, Chris Christie.
09:37The way he attacks people's weaknesses or disabilities.
09:41I've heard how he talks about people.
09:43It does not connote anybody to believe that he loves folk.
09:50And then there's Joe Biden.
09:52I ran against him in the primary.
09:55Joe Biden, to this day, teases me about how I just started really loving the guy.
10:03Because I got to see him behind the scenes when nobody was watching.
10:08I believe another saying, simple truth, someone who's nice to you but not nice to the waiter is not a nice person.
10:17Look at folks when nobody's watching how they act.
10:22America, you have a lot of choices on policy or on facts.
10:25I believe the Democratic Party has done so much to attack rising costs, to attack rising prescription drugs,
10:32to fight through a globally bad economy and produce more jobs and more opportunity and better health care and greater coverage.
10:40I believe all of those things that really matter to households.
10:43But I want America to think about something also.
10:46At a time when people are talking about tamping down political rhetoric, that is not enough.
10:52We have a problem in this country that we hate each other just because of how we vote.
11:00Fox News watchers, MSNBC watchers, they're told by these 24-hour stations to hate each other.
11:07Character traits are being produced of Democrats and Republicans that are so far from the truth.
11:12I see it in the Senate. Nobody wants to talk about our bipartisan bills.
11:15Everybody wants to talk about our disagreement.
11:18This is a vote on policy. America, choose who's going to be best for the bottom line of your family.
11:23But God, in this time, look for leaders that lead with love.
11:27Look for people that don't just tamp down the rhetoric.
11:31Rise up the community, the beloved community that our country has to be.
11:35Support the people that know that even though you don't vote for me, you're not my enemy.
11:40In this moment in our democracy, please vote for decency and kindness and empathy and grace.
11:47Those are the best American values and the best American virtues.
11:53Listen to how candidates talk about the other side, about Democrats if they're Republican or about Republicans if they're Democrat.
12:02That will show you whether they're a leader that really can bring us together.
12:07The last thing I'll say is this world is in a wretchedly difficult place, from Haiti to Sudan.
12:14We're at a point in human history with the most food insecure people.
12:19We are called in this country to be a light to all nations.
12:24Choose who you want in the White House to be the nation that the world needs.
12:30Are they a president that talks about, excuse my language, shithole countries?
12:36Or are they a president that sees every nation with its people having dignity and potential and possibility?
12:44And knows that America alone, yeah, America first, America alone, we are the strongest nation on the planet.
12:50But America with other nations in partnership for human rights and human dignity, we are invincible.
12:58This is an election about what's best for your family.
13:01I know the Democrats and Joe Biden are going to fight for your health care, fight for good paying jobs, fight for your retirement security.
13:08But the thing we really need in this country right now is patriotism.
13:15And patriotism is love of country and you cannot love your country unless you truly love your countrymen and women, all of them.