Booker, O'Rourke rally with striking McDonald's workers in South Carolina

White House hopefuls Cory Booker and Beto O’Rourke rallied with striking McDonald’s workers in South Carolina on Saturday as they try to gin up support in the crucial early voting state.

The New Jersey senator and former Texas congressman appeared alongside the workers in Charleston as they demanded a $15 wage. Calls for a bump in the federal minimum wage and support for labor movements and unions have become staples among the 24-candidate Democratic primary field.

“What kind of nation will we be? Will we be a nation where a family who works a full-time job can have the American dream? Or will we be one where corporate power denies equality, denies justice and denies that dream?” Booker asked.

“I say it is time for us to become a nation that dreams again. That has the courage and the defiance to say, ‘I dream of a nation where everyone who works a full-time job can make a living wage.’”

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