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EXCLUSIVE: Cory Booker Announces Presidential Run On The TJMS
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10:41Now PlayingNew Jersey Senator Cory Booker has thrown his hat into the increasingly crowded 2020 presidential race, first announcing his candidacy on the Tom Joyner Morning Show today.
He explained:
“Publicly, I wanted to come on this show, Tom, cause of what you mean to so many people in this country. I want everybody to know that I am running for president of the United States of America and just really excited to do so. We live in a nation where people are beginning to lose faith in what we can do together. Folks are feeling left out, folks are feeling left behind, and I think too many people are beginning to think that the things that are tearing us apart are stronger than the things holding us together. I’m running for president to change that, to reignite our sense of what’s possible and reignite the moral imagination of what we can become together. I believe in this nation. As difficult as our past has been we’ve always overcome. We got a better future ahead of us if we come together, work together, stand together, and I believe America and the days ahead we will rise.”
He joins a slew of Democrats who are also vying for the Democratic nomination including Julián Castro, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator from New York; Kamala Harris, Senator from California; Tulsi Gabbard, Rep. from Hawaii’s 2nd District; and John Delaney, former representative from Maryland’s 6th District.
Booker, who was elected to the Senate in 2013 developed a reputation while Mayor of Newark, New Jersey as a champion of the people, once responding in person to a Twitter request to shovel an elderly man’s driveway, another time saving a woman in a house fire and once even helping a constituent propose to his girlfriend.
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