Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has ended his presidential campaign. In an email to NBC, Booker provided the following statements:
“I will carry this fight forward — I just won’t be doing it as a candidate for president this year. Friend, it’s with a full heart that I share this news — I’ve made the decision to suspend my campaign for president.”
“Our campaign has reached the point where we need more money to scale up and continue building a campaign that can win — money we don’t have, and money that is harder to raise because I won’t be on the next debate stage and because the urgent business of impeachment will rightly be keeping me in Washington.”
The New Jersey Democrat ran his campaign on the promises of Medicare for all, abortion-for-all, and, like the rest of the divisive candidates on stage with him, talk a strong talk of unity.
Booker was among the more popular Democrats going into the campaign season last year. Much of this can be attributed to his, and Kamala Harris’, enthusiastic opposition towards Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Booker’s dramatic opposition and manipulative rhetorical tactics during the Kavanaugh hearings earned him points with his constituents and other liberal Americans…just not enough points.
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