新泽西参议员科里·布克重申了他对团结和结束华盛顿党派“部落主义”的呼吁,恳求美国选民重新考虑并为他的2020年总统竞选捐款。
布克的竞选活动一直在民意测验和筹款中苦苦挣扎,他出现在哥伦比亚广播公司面向国家周日。主持人约翰·迪克森反复质疑布克的“爱与团结”的信息是否得到了美国人的共鸣,因为他在竞选活动或民意测验中努力争取更多的支持。布克拒绝了这一建议,并表示他比任何其他候选人都得到当地领导人的支持。
“我需要帮助,”@CoryBooker在爱荷华州核心会议和即将到来的民主党辩论之前,呼吁捐款以维持2020年的竞选活动
—面对国家(@面对国家)2019年12月1日
迪克森告诉民主党竞选者:“你正在努力活下去。”。“你谈论爱情和团结。你一直都在谈论这个。这种信息不畅销吗?”
布克回答说:“从这个意义上来说,现在我们从爱荷华州和新罕布什尔州的地方领导人那里看到,没有一个候选人比我更受那些努力为美国人民谋福利的当地民众的支持。”。
“我们看到我的喜好度现在是第三名,我们现在是爱荷华州的第三名,所以它是有效的,它没有转化成人们在民意测验中选择我,这就是为什么我们制作更多的广告,希望更多的人到我的网站上做贡献,这样我们可以做更多的事情,”他补充说。
布克说,他第一次参加2020年的比赛的主要原因是“确认分裂我们的界线没有束缚我们的纽带那么牢固。我竞选总统是因为我认为下一任总统,尤其是在这位总统之后,必须是一个治疗者,必须把“不可分割的”放回上帝统治下的这个国家。”
12月19日的下一场辩论将由政客和美国公共广播公司新闻小时,并要求候选人至少有20万名捐赠者,其中800名个人捐赠者来自20个不同的州。"你的竞选是否面临着登上竞选舞台的生死关头?"迪克森问道。
布克说:“这是这样一个时刻——人们以前对此做出过回应——如果你想让我参加这场比赛,如果你想让我的声音和信息得到共鸣,那么我需要帮助。”。“我需要人们去CoryBooker.com做出贡献,这样我们就可以做我看到的许多[赛跑中的亿万富翁正在做的事情,就是不停地做广告来提高他们的投票率。”
“我不会拿公司打包的钱,我要靠个人捐款,这是我们需要继续下去的,”他继续说道。
最近,一个支持布克的超级政治行动委员会,联合我们赢了,正在爱荷华州得梅因和锡达拉皮兹做广告,瞄准目标印第安纳州南本德市市长皮特·巴蒂吉格。布克周五出现在美国有线电视新闻网上时,似乎对这则广告感到惊讶,当时播放了一小段广告。布克已经很久了声称否认为他2020年竞选打包钱。
布克周日还告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻,党派偏见正在变成“部落主义”,美国人互相憎恨只是“因为我们投票不同”
'I NEED HELP': CORY BOOKER PLEADS FOR CAMPAIGN DONATIONS
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker reiterated his calls for unity and an end to partisan "tribalism" in Washington, pleading with American voters to reconsider and donate to his 2020 presidential campaign.
Booker, whose campaign has been struggling in polls and fundraising, appeared on CBS' Face the Nation Sunday. Host John Dickerson repeatedly questioned if Booker's message of "love and unity" is resonating with Americans given that he's struggled to gain much traction on the campaign trail or in polls. Booker brushed off that suggestion and said he has more endorsements from local leaders than any other candidate.
"I need help," @CoryBooker appeals for donations to keep 2020 campaign afloat ahead of the Iowa caucus and upcoming Democratic debates
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) December 1, 2019
"You're struggling to stay alive," Dickerson told the Democratic contender. "You talk about love and unity. You've talked about that throughout. Is that message not selling?"
"Well, it is in the sense that right now we see from local leaders in Iowa and New Hampshire there's no candidate who has more endorsements than I do from folks on the ground who are trying to make things happen for the American people," Booker replied.
"We see my favorability is now number three, we're now number three in Iowa, so it's working, it's not translating to people choosing me in the polls, this is why we're making more ads and hopefully more people go to my website and make contributions so we can do more of that," he added.
Booker said the primary reason he first entered the 2020 race was to "affirm that the lines that divide us are not as strong as the ties that bind us. I'm running for president because I think the next president, especially after this one, has to be a healer, has to put 'indivisible' back into this one nation under God."
The next debate on December 19 will be hosted by Politico and PBS NewsHour, and requires candidates to have at least 200,000 donors, with 800 of this individual donors coming from 20 different states. "Is your campaign facing a do-or-die moment in terms of getting on the campaign stage?" Dickerson asked.
"It's one of those moments where--and people have responded to this before--that if you want me in this race, that if you want my voice and my message, which is resonating, then I need help," Booker said. "I need people to go to CoryBooker.com and contribute so we can do what I see a lot of the billionaires in the race [are] doing, which is just running non-stop ads to boost their poll numbers."
"I'm not taking corporate PAC money, I'm running on individual contributions and that's what we're going to need to keep going," he continued.
Recently, a pro-Booker Super PAC, United We Win, is running an ad in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which takes aim at South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Booker appeared surprised by the ad during a Friday appearance on CNN in which a brief clip of the ad was aired. Booker has long claimed to disavow PAC money for his 2020 campaign.
Booker also told CBS News on Sunday that partisanship is becoming "tribalism," and that Americans are hating each other simply "because we vote differently."