Cory Booker's file

"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."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Thursday, October 10th, 2013

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

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, September 1st, 2013

Says under Mayor Cory Booker, Newark has seen "violent crime up five years in a row, murder up five years in a row."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, August 25th, 2013

"We need to pass a carbon tax to stop climate change. Break up the Wall Street banks. And stop the government spying on innocent Americans. Cory Booker doesn’t support any of these ideas."  

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, August 11th, 2013

"Research shows that 1 percent of licensed dealers supply a whopping 57 percent of the guns that are recovered in crimes."

— PolitiFact Florida on Friday, March 16th, 2018

"In American history since 9/11, we've had 85 major attacks in our country, 73 percent of them have been by white nationalist hate groups."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, January 18th, 2018

"In 2009, Mitch McConnell was the person that’s saying, 'Hey, we should get all the ethics information in before we do the hearings.' "

— PolitiFact National on Sunday, January 8th, 2017

The war on drugs led to "a 500 percent increase in incarceration in our country, disproportionately affecting poor and disproportionately affecting minorities."  

— PolitiFact National on Sunday, July 10th, 2016

"Al-Qaida operatives, have said, 'Hey, we want you to use this loophole (for purchasing guns despite being on a watch list) to attack and kill Americans.'"

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, June 23rd, 2016