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‘So much is at stake’: Why Cory Booker has shed his nice guy image in Brett Kavanaugh hearings

When Cory Booker arrived in Washington, he dined with Ted Cruz, talked criminal justice reform with Rand Paul, and tried to make good on a campaign pledge to pursue common ground and choose "pragmatism over partisanship." Times have changed, and now the first-term New Jersey Democrat and former Newark mayor — who built his political brand on positivity and the power of love — has put on the gloves.

Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.), right, and other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee appealed to Chairman Chuck Grassley, (R., Iowa), to delay the confirmation hearing of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday.
Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.), right, and other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee appealed to Chairman Chuck Grassley, (R., Iowa), to delay the confirmation hearing of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday.Read moreAP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite