NJ’s Cory Booker announces run for president
By Lena Zhu | Published by Feb. 22, 2019
Booker announces his plan to run for president on Twitter on Feb. 1. Photo by Lena Zhu.
Senator Cory Booker, former mayor of Newark, announced run for president in the 2020 election. The first New Jerseyan to do so in more than a generation.
Booker timed his announcement on the first day of Black History Month to maintain a sense of unity and pride with his campaign.
In an email to supporters, the U.S. senator from New Jersey wrote of the history of the Civil Rights movement that “channels our common pain back into our common purpose.”
An active user of social media, Booker posted a video on his Twitter account along with his announcement. https://bit.ly/2WWWwRB
The video, about two minutes in length, showcased his beliefs and values, as well as his career history.
A Democratic nominee, Booker wants to change the system and beliefs on childcare and the criminal justice system. In his video, he calls for a country where “our criminal justice system keeps us safe, instead of shuffling more children into cages and coffins; where we see the faces of our leaders on television and feel pride, not shame.”
Booker will now be among the most diverse group of Democratic contenders running for the presidency. The contenders include Booker, Kamala Harris (California), Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Tulsi Gabbard, Julian Castro, who worked under Obama, as well as Pete Buttigieg, current mayor of Indiana.
The last time a person from New Jersey ran for president was in 1992 when then U.S. Senator Bill Bradley ran in the primary as a Democrat. At that time, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton won that primary and went on to become president and served for two terms.
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