Cory Booker
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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"The consumer confidence in this country has gone way down."
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“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…
Says the U.S. Senate is “dominated by millionaires” and that he is “not one of them.”
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…
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"In 2017, we had more marijuana possession arrests in our country than all other violent crimes combined."
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"When Connecticut did licensing, their shootings dropped, their murders dropped 40%. Suicides dropped 15%."
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"Nowadays, there is more regulation over toy guns than real ones."
"We now have longitudinal data that shows that children born around Superfund sites have dramatically higher rates of birth defects, dramatically higher rates of autism."
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Says President Donald Trump "cut funding from the Justice Department to investigate these domestic terrorist groups, these white supremacist groups."
"Farmer suicide rates are as high as they have been since the Great Depression."