Cory Booker

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., announced he would embark on a run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020. Here's everything you need to know about him.

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Sen. Cory Booker gained national attention as mayor of Newark, New Jersey. Now he's running for President of the United States.

Senator Cory Booker, 2020 Democratic candidate for president, reacts to the breaking news of a shootout in Philadelphia in which a suspect has injured several police officers, and talks with Rachel Maddow about the collective trauma communities suffer as a result of pervasive gun violence in the United States.

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U.S. senator from New Jersey and Democratic candidate for president. Most tweets (and typos) are mine, some are my team’s.

Cory 2020

Sen. Cory Booker, a Democratic presidential candidate, told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday that "this impotent simplicity of who is and who isn't a racist is really not the question." "it's not enough to say 'I'm not a racist' in America. If racism exists, you need to be anti-racist," the N.J. senator said. "Remember, King said more eloquently than me -- he said what you have to repent for in this day and age is not just the vitriolic words and violent actions of the bad people, it's the appalling silence and inaction of the good people." SEN. CORY BOOKER: This impotent simplicity of who is and who isn't a racist is really not the question. If we have racism in our country and we're all in this together and we believe that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, what are you doing about that injustice? If you -- it's not enough to say "I'm not a racist" in America. If racism exists, you need to be anti-racist. Same with anti-Semitism. I can't sit idly by if my Jewish brothers and sisters are facing that kind of violence and that kind of evil. We are all in this together. And so if these issues exist - STEPHANOPOULOS: So if you're -- if you're -- if someone is supporting President Trump they're not anti-racist? BOOKER: No, I'm not -- I'm not saying that. And again, this is the kind of slicing and dicing that often tries to pit us against each other. If we have a nation where someone doesn't feel comfortable, where someone is -- could be a victim of a violent attack -- and remember, white supremacy and white supremacist attacks are on the rise. The majority of our terrorist attacks in this country since 9/11 have been white -- right-wing extremist groups or white supremacist groups. And so if this kind of strains exist in our society, we all -- all Americans should say this is not who we are and we have something to do about it. Remember, King said more eloquently than me -- he said what you have to repent for in this day and age is not just the vitriolic words and violent actions of the bad people, it's the appalling silence and inaction of the good people.