Surprising no one, Senator Cory Booker is getting into the crowded 2020 field of Democratic Party hopefuls.
I’m running for president. Join me on this journey. https://t.co/fEDqOVIfwh pic.twitter.com/h1FTPUYRzo
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) February 1, 2019
Before the senate, Sen. Booker was mayor of Newark, NJ. His higher-profile moments in the Senate have come from his position on the Senate Judiciary Committee, a place he shares with fellow candidate Kamala Harris (D-CA), and potential candidate Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). He brought attention, and criticism, during the Kavanaugh hearings for declaring he was breaking committee rules on releasing information, calling it “about the closest I’ll probably ever have in my life to an ‘I am Spartacus’ moment.” We will see if 2020 proves to be a better moment for the senator.
At least we’re past all the female candidate land mines and I can state without fear of repercussion that I will never vote for one of *those* people… vegans.Report
Amy Klobuchar: “I’m not a vegan!” 🙂Report
Shit… she hasn’t declared yet? I’ll go back on mute.Report
Cory Booker is my pick for the first politician we’re going to see doing the flossing dance on Ellen.Report
I was wrong.
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He’s a pretty strong contender. Probably a good potential contender for Veep pick too. I’d think a Klobuchar/Booker ticket would be pretty fearsome.Report
Booker is one of the few Democrats I like. Big on criminal justice reform. Not anti-capitalist. A lot more reasonable.Report
Also not a vile, incompetent, corrupt, infantile, authoritarian bigot.Report
In “running for president” news, the invisible primary is heating up.
They dug up Elizabeth Warren’s registration card with the State Bar of Texas and, yeppers, she put “American Indian” on there. That’s a story from yesterday.
Today, Meet the Press tweeted a flashback to Warren saying that she “never used it for anything. Never got any benefits from it anywhere.”Report
And Donald Trump is a self-made man.Report
I’m not sure that “But Drumpf!” is an interesting rebuttal to “looks like the invisible primary is heating up.”
Have you seen the news coming out about how Klobuchar treated her staff?
Wait, lemme guess at a good joke to make… um… “Trump fired a guy every week for 14 seasons of The Apprentice and he was celebrated for it!”Report