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Booker focuses on race relations in initial 2020 White House swing
From the article:
U.S. Senator Cory Booker made the nation’s complicated history with race relations and racial disparities a focal point at events in the key state of Iowa during his first 2020 presidential campaign swing over the weekend....
Booker’s focus was an overture to the coalition of young, diverse voters that twice elected former Democratic President Barack Obama, while also differentiating his style from that of the first black U.S. president, who rarely discussed race during his campaign....
Diane Lemker, 64, attended the Marshalltown brewery event and plans to participate in next year’s Democratic nominating caucuses for the first time. She liked Booker’s message of unity and inclusivity.
“Obama won the caucus in Iowa in 2008 and that’s what set him off – people couldn’t believe that a primarily white state would launch his candidacy and it did,” Lemker told Reuters.
Booker’s focus was an overture to the coalition of young, diverse voters that twice elected former Democratic President Barack Obama, while also differentiating his style from that of the first black U.S. president, who rarely discussed race during his campaign....
Diane Lemker, 64, attended the Marshalltown brewery event and plans to participate in next year’s Democratic nominating caucuses for the first time. She liked Booker’s message of unity and inclusivity.
“Obama won the caucus in Iowa in 2008 and that’s what set him off – people couldn’t believe that a primarily white state would launch his candidacy and it did,” Lemker told Reuters.
To read more:
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/02/11/booker-2020.html
So many good prospective candidates.
And the GOP has Trump.