New Jersey’s Sen. Cory Booker: ‘A moral moment in America’

DURHAM, N.H. – Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey has stumped in New Hampshire for key Democratic candidates, telling activists after the mass shooting t a Pittsburgh synagogue that “we are in a moral moment in America.”

Booker also was among several prominent Democratic leaders mailed pipe bombs last week. All were intercepted and no one was hurt.

Booker told a crowd of young Democratic activists at the University of New Hampshire that what worries him in moments like these is that “we pause and express grief and then we move on as if this is normal.” But he emphasized: “This is not normal. This is not who we are.”

Eleven congregants were killed in the Pittsburgh shooting, called one of the deadliest attacks against the Jewish community in this country.