Cory Booker unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2020.
Notes on verification
Multiple major news outlets (NPR, PBS NewsHour, NBC News) confirm Booker ran for and withdrew from the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. [tier=silver indep_score=0.7 clusters=3 claim_tier=everyday | kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- US Senator Cory Booker makes history with record speech aimed at Trump | Politics News | Al Jazeera (seed:politics_and_current_events)
- https://www.npr.org/transcripts/795884719 (corroboration)
- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/cory-booker-drops-out-of-2020-presidential-race (corroboration)
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/cory-booker-drops-out-presidential-race-n1114426 (corroboration)