WASHINGTON — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker of Kentucky pummeled Mitch McConnell for an answer to a question that implies that Black Americans aren’t Americans.
“Being Black doesn’t make you less of an American, no matter what this craven man thinks,” Booker blasted in a fundraising email on Thursday, flagging McConnell’s remarks.
Asked at a Wednesday press conference what he’d say to African-American voters who fear about their ability to vote without passage of the John R. Lewis Freedom to Vote Act, McConnell replied, “Well the concern is misplaced because if you look at the statistics, African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.”
