Cory Booker Dips a Toe Into New Hampshire as 2020 Decision Nears
Source: New York Times
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey says he will be deciding about running for president over the holidays. But as he blitzed through New Hampshire on Saturday in a whirlwind of selfies and soaring rhetoric about Americans finding “common purpose,” the 49-year-old Democrat sounded less like a candidate in a tentative early audition than one finishing off a dress rehearsal.
He chatted up diners in a Nashua coffee shop, speechified to a packed Manchester auditorium, gave sit-down interviews to local news media, met with Democratic influencers and was slated to attend three house parties in different cities across the state.
In dark jeans, a checkered blue dress shirt under a blue sweater and Nike hiking boots, Mr. Booker more than looked the part of a New Hampshire primary contender.
“This country has enough hate, enough bigotry, enough anti-Semitism,” he said in 20 minutes of remarks to about 300 party officials and activists in Manchester, the state’s largest city, speaking without notes and without mentioning President Trump. “What we need now is courageous actors who call to the conscience of our country a higher moral imagination, who call for a revival of civic grace.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/us/politics/cory-booker-2020.html
I expect a phone call will be in the offing...
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I remember the very first time I saw him on Rachel Maddow when he was still MAYOR. Back then, I said to myself: "Self, that man is going to be elected as President of the United States!"
