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U.S. Senator-for-Life from Noo Joisey, formerly the mayor of Newark. Booker is a candidate for president in 2020, running on a platform of Make America Newark. He once wrote an essay on how to grope babes. He is noted for having an imaginary friend named T-Bone...
is betting the path to the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination runs through young people and African-Americans‐the same groups that propelled Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
’s campaign.
Mr. Booker’s stump speech recalls "the greatest infrastructure program this country has ever seen, the Underground Railroad" and his family’s history of integrating a New Jersey suburb.
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the New Jersey senator embraces social media more than any other 2020 candidate. Alaeldin Dafalla, a 19-year-old political science major at University of Northern Iowa, said at Mr. Booker’s Waterloo event that his social media presence makes him more relatable than other politicians.
"I keep up with all his vegan meals," Mr. Dafalla said.
It’s part of Mr. Booker’s effort to place himself as the inheritor of Mr. Obama’s sunny political coalition, which could appeal to moderate suburban Republicans who abandoned their party in last year’s midterm elections that saw the Democrats retake control of the House.
"There’s a tribalism that comes where you don’t even care what comes out of the person’s mouth, if they are of the opposite political party, we start to tear them down," Mr. Booker, 49 years old, said. "It’s not going to work. We’re not going to solve our big political problems unless we find ways to reach out and work together."