I’ll Be Running For 2020 Democratic Presidential Bid – US Senator, Cory Booker

New Jersey State Senator, Cory Booker has announced his intention to run for the Democratic presidential nomination to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020.

Cory Booker who is former mayor of Newark, has been a senator since 2013 and now joins a growing Democratic primary field including fellow senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Kamala Harris of California.

“I believe that we can build a country where no one is forgotten, no one is left behind; where parents can put food on the table; where there are good-paying jobs with good benefits in every neighborhood,” Booker said.

He called 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.”

He would be the nation’s second black president and would face at least one other African- American opponent, Harris, in a party where black voters have been decisive in picking the presidential nominee in the last two open contests — Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Barack Obama in 2008.

Booker, New Jersey’s first black senator, draws comparisons with Obama, who arrived in the Senate in 2005 to immediate buzz about Oval Office ambitions. Yet at a time of increasing energy in the Democratic Party’s progressive wing, Booker will be challenged by other candidates who are more strongly embraced on the left, including Warren and, potentially, Bernie Sanders of Vermont if he decides to run.