The vast majority of votes Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., missed were “procedural, symbolic, or non-binding,” a Booker spokeswoman told NJ.com. Booker ended his White House bid last month.
Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir gave an explanation to Vermont newspaper Seven Days last August.
“Bernie has made a commitment over this next year to give it his best shot to run for President and win. He’s all in. That sometimes comes at the expense of missing a few Senate votes, but if there are ever any votes that hinge on his presence, he will certainly be there,” Shakir said.
But some of the missed votes were on funding the Department of Defense, suspending the debt limit and bids to override President Trump’s vetoes of resolutions to block arms sales to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, the newspaper noted.
Still, Sanders’ 64 percent mark was better than during his 2016 presidential run, when he missed 71 percent of Senate votes, Seven Days reported.
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Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., who suspended her presidential campaign last year, came in third, having missed 62 percent of votes, according to NJ.com.
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