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Cory Booker is a senator from New Jersey. He was first elected to the Senate in 2013, making him the first African-American senator from New Jersey and the first African-American elected to the Senate since Barack Obama in 2004. Booker served as mayor of Newark from 2006 until 2013. He has a bachelor's degree in political science and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University, an honors degree in United States history from The Queens College as a Rhodes Scholar and a J.D. from Yale Law School. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and suspended his campaign in January 2020.

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Cory Booker
stated on April 1, 2025 in a Senate floor speech:

"The consumer confidence in this country has gone way down."

By Louis Jacobson • April 3, 2025
Cory Booker
stated on February 9, 2021 in a statement:

“There is a direct connection between discriminatory policies within the USDA and the enormous land loss we have seen among Black farmers over the past century."

By Miriam Valverde • February 22, 2021
Cory Booker
stated on July 30, 2020 in an interview:

Says the U.S. Senate is “dominated by millionaires” and that he is “not one of them.”

By Jessica Calefati • August 13, 2020
Cory Booker
stated on January 9, 2020 in public comments:

National polls have “never predicted who will be president from our party. Carter was in the single digits a few months before caucuses. Bill Clinton was. Obama — 20 points behind in the national polls roughly.”

By Brooklyn Draisey • February 6, 2020
Cory Booker
stated on July 5, 2019 in an interview:

"In 2017, we had more marijuana possession arrests in our country than all other violent crimes combined."

By Tom Kertscher • July 11, 2019

Bloggers
stated on December 25, 2019 in a post on a fake news website:

"Cory Booker’s son charged with assault after attack on Santa."

By Jon Greenberg • January 2, 2020
Roger Stone
stated on September 28, 2018 in a Facebook post:

As mayor of Newark, N.J., Cory Booker "stole $600,000 from a city water authority and laundered it through his law firm."

By Daniel Funke • October 14, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on June 26, 2019 in a tweet from the Trump campaign:

Says Cory Booker has accepted over $400,000 from the pharmaceutical industry during his political career.

By Jon Greenberg • July 2, 2019
Steve Lonegan
stated on September 23, 2013 in an interview on the John Gambling radio show:

"Violent crime is up since the last year of Sharpe James’ administration. This year it’s higher. … The unemployment rate is almost 15 percent. The high school dropout rate is over 50 percent."

By Caryn Shinske • October 10, 2013
BookerFail
stated on August 23, 2013 in a U.S. Senate campaign video ad:

Says Cory Booker "supports late-term and partial-birth abortion and opposes safety regulations."

By Caryn Shinske • September 1, 2013

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