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Cory Booker

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

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

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By Louis Jacobson • April 3, 2025

Cory Booker
stated on February 9, 2021 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."

True

By Miriam Valverde • February 22, 2021

Cory Booker
stated on July 30, 2020 an interview:

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

True

By Jessica Calefati • August 13, 2020

Cory Booker
stated on January 9, 2020 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.”

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By Brooklyn Draisey • February 6, 2020

Cory Booker
stated on July 5, 2019 an interview:

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

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By Tom Kertscher • July 11, 2019

Cory Booker
stated on May 12, 2019 an interview on ABC This Week:

"When Connecticut did licensing, their shootings dropped, their murders dropped 40%. Suicides dropped 15%."

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By Amy Sherman • May 20, 2019

Cory Booker
stated on May 6, 2019 a Medium post:

"Nowadays, there is more regulation over toy guns than real ones."

Mostly False

By Yanqi Xu • May 10, 2019

Cory Booker
stated on April 29, 2019 a cable TV news interview.:

"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."

Mostly True

By Shefali Luthra • May 1, 2019

Cory Booker
stated on March 27, 2019 a CNN town hall in South Carolina:

Says President Donald Trump "cut funding from the Justice Department to investigate these domestic terrorist groups, these white supremacist groups."

Mostly False

By Amy Sherman • April 11, 2019

Cory Booker
stated on March 18, 2019 an interview on MSNBC:

"Farmer suicide rates are as high as they have been since the Great Depression."

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By Jon Greenberg • March 21, 2019

Cory Booker
stated on February 4, 2019 an interview on CBS This Morning:

"Even the (Congressional Budget Office) says if you lower Medicare to allow 50 year olds to get into it, you can not only save the government money, but you can lower premiums for all Americans."

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By Jon Greenberg • February 8, 2019

Cory Booker
stated on March 14, 2018 a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing:

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

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By Allison Graves • March 16, 2018

Cory Booker
stated on January 16, 2018 an interview on CNN:

"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."

Half-True

By Amy Sherman • January 18, 2018

Cory Booker
stated on January 8, 2017 an interview on 'Face the Nation':

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

Mostly True

By Linda Qiu • January 8, 2017

Cory Booker
stated on July 10, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press":

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

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • July 10, 2016

Cory Booker
stated on June 16, 2016 an interview on MSNBC:

"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.'"

Mostly True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 23, 2016

Cory Booker
stated on August 9, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week.":

"You’re more likely to get struck by lightning in Texas" than find in-person voter fraud.

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By Christian Belanger • August 18, 2015

Cory Booker
stated on July 27, 2015 a post on Instagram:

"We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005 to keep up with our mass incarceration explosion of nonviolent offenders."

Mostly True

By Keely Herring • July 31, 2015

Cory Booker
stated on September 10, 2013 an e-mailed campaign letter:

Newark is "now home to one-third of all commercial and multi-family development."

Half-True

By Caryn Shinske • September 15, 2013

Cory Booker
stated on February 1, 2013 an appearance on "Bill Maher Overtime":

Says 2012 was the "first year in American history that more minorities are being born than people in the majority."

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By Caryn Shinske • February 17, 2013

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

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

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By Jon Greenberg • January 2, 2020

Roger Stone
stated on September 28, 2018 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."

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By Daniel Funke • October 14, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on June 26, 2019 a tweet from the Trump campaign:

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

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • July 2, 2019

Steve Lonegan
stated on September 23, 2013 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."

Half-True

By Caryn Shinske • October 10, 2013

BookerFail
stated on August 23, 2013 a U.S. Senate campaign video ad:

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

Half-True

By Caryn Shinske • September 1, 2013

Steve Lonegan
stated on August 15, 2013 a radio interview on “Focal Point with Bryan Fischer”:

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

Half-True

By Bill Wichert • August 25, 2013

Rush Holt
stated on August 5, 2013 a Democratic primary U.S. Senate seat campaign TV ad:

"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."

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By Caryn Shinske • August 11, 2013

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