(Democratic Convention) Cory Booker says inequity has worsened

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker assailed the economy under President Donald Trump, saying that "he has failed us," CNN reports.

"Working people are under attack, the wealth gap grows, our middle class shrinks, and poverty persists," the one-time 2020 Democratic presidential candidate said. Pointing to millions of Americans who have lost their health care and face economic hardship as a result of the pandemic, he said of Trump, "He has failed us."

Booker spoke of his grandfather, who he said left the South during the Jim Crow era and moved to Detroit, where he got a union job on an assembly line during World War II.

"Together, with Joe and Kamala in the White House, we’ll raise the minimum wage so no one who works a full time job lives in poverty. Together, we’ll fight for those who keep us healthy; who keep us safe; who teach our kids," Booker said. "We’ll stand for those who cook, and serve and clean; who plant and harvest; who pack and always deliver, whose hands are thick with callouses like my grandad’s, who held mine when I was a boy."