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New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has joined the chorus of voices blasting President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Breitbart founder Steve Bannon as his chief strategist and senior counselor.

“Bannon won’t build bridges, he will burn them,” Booker said in a statement published on Facebook Tuesday. “He is unfit to advise America’s commander-in-chief. Donald Trump should reverse the decision to hire him and chart a different course for the good of the American people.”

Before joining forces with Trump in August as the CEO of his campaign, Bannon served as the executive chairman of Breitbart News, an ultra conservative website that caters to the so-called alt-right movement with headlines including “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy,” “Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew,” and “World Health Organization Report: Trannies 49 Xs Higher HIV Rate.”

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The Anti-Defamation League also blasted the White House appointment, which it regards as “hostile to core American values,” while Seth Meyers told his “Late Night” viewers Monday that Bannon is a “white nationalist and anti-Semite.”

Read Booker’s entire statement below.

“Over the course of his campaign, Donald Trump degraded and demeaned Americans, threatened our rights, and attacked the privileges of citizenship. He will have a disastrous presidency if he governs that way, and he must show the American people with words and action how he will change direction. Many have offered to give him a chance to do so, despite his divisive campaigning, and he should not squander that opportunity to unite our nation.

Elevating Steve Bannon — a man who leads a website that promotes truly radical views about race and religion, whose appointment was celebrated by neo-Nazis and denounced by the Anti-Defamation League, and who has been condemned by Republicans and Democrats alike — to one of the highest positions in the White House installs a man with fringe and dangerous ideologies just steps from the Oval Office.

Bannon won’t build bridges, he will burn them. He is unfit to advise America’s commander-in-chief. Donald Trump should reverse the decision to hire him and chart a different course for the good of the American people.”

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Michelle Obama

The First Lady is a terrific public speaker and one of the most likable members of the Democratic Party. She has said the job doesn’t interest her. However, if Trump isn’t unifying the nation as his term winds down, expect Democratic leadership to beg her to run.

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Cory Booker

Booker is a talented campaigner who is one of America’s most prominent African-Americans. The New Jersey senator is extremely popular among his peers, and his speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention was widely praised.

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Bernie Sanders

The Vermont senator is arguably the most popular left-leaning politician in America and came close to upsetting Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. WikiLeaks emails exposed how the DNC favored Clinton, which may embolden supporters who argue it's his turn. But Sanders is now 75 and may be considered too old in four years.

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Elizabeth Warren

The Massachusetts senator could pick up supporters of the Bernie Sanders movement, and she’s not afraid to fight back against Donald Trump. "We are going to be smart, we are going to be organized, we're going to use our time and talents in a strategic and careful way, but we are going to fight back," she recently told MSNBC. "We are not going to turn this country over to what Donald Trump has sold."

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Joe Biden

The outgoing vice president considered running against Hillary Clinton in 2016 but decided not to after the 2015 death of his son Beau. Biden is popular, particularly with working-class voters whom Trump lured from the Democrats. But he's 73, and like Biden may seem to old in four years.
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Mark Cuban

Well, we can't laugh anymore at billionaire reality TV stars with no political experience. Cuban has shown a passion for politics and was a special guest of Hillary Clinton during a presidential debate. He is openly anti-Trump and might have the personality and attitude to beat the president-elect at his own game.

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Tim Kaine

Clinton's running mate knows his way around Washington and may be the de facto candidate given his role as her understudy.

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Andrew Cuomo

The governor of New York is a staunch supporter of same-sex marriage and gun control. Cuomo is popular in the Empire State and a close ally of Hillary Clinton.

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Kamala Harris

California's new senator-elect Harris is currently the state’s Attorney General who has vowed to fight against Trump’s proposed policies.

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