He endorsed Joe Biden for president in March 2020. Booker suspended his presidential campaign on January 13, 2020. After qualifying for the first five Democratic Party presidential debates, he failed to meet the polling thresholds to participate in the sixth debate in December 2019. īooker's support amongst Democratic voters hovered in the low single digits throughout much of his campaign. Donations from other political action committees, such as the Environment America organization, were still accepted. The Booker campaign did not accept contributions from corporate PACs or federally registered lobbyists. On July 5, 2019, Booker hosted a roundtable discussion on immigration in Las Vegas, Nevada, saying the panel consisted "of folks who are, in my opinion, some of the bright lights in the nation for being activists around issues that are best for our country, issues that represent our values, and, frankly, the issues that are just helping to deal with what I see as a very, very dark period in American history." īooker focused much of his campaigning on an effort to win the 2020 Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses. He launched a two-week campaign tour from there on April 14, 2019. īooker opened his campaign headquarters in the historic renovated New Jersey Bell Headquarters Building on Broad Street in Newark, New Jersey in March 2019. Booker held a campaign kickoff rally in Newark on April 13. Bob Menendez, and every Democratic member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey endorsed him. Within a month after Booker announced his candidacy, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, U.S. Booker intentionally chose the first day of Black History Month to announce his candidacy. History īooker's 2020 presidential campaign was announced on February 1, 2019, when a video entitled "We Will Rise" was posted on Booker's YouTube channel. He began making trips to early campaign locations in 2018 and early 2019. Booker had openly considered a presidential bid as early as September 2018. His idealistic rhetoric and vocal defense for the rights of black people, women, and LGBT people (groups who tend to belong to the Democratic Party's base) in hearings dating back to 2017 had been seen as positioning for a 2020 run. īooker was widely expected to run for president in 2020. All five of the Senators in this group were considered potential 2020 presidential contenders. In 2018, Politico identified Booker as part of the "Hell-No Caucus." Along with Senators Harris, Gillibrand, Warren and Sanders, he had voted overwhelmingly against Trump nominees for administration jobs. Booker campaigns in New Hampshire in February 2019.
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