Senator Cory Booker has announced that he is retiring from the race for the Democratic nomination ahead of this year's elections.
In a message released through his social media accounts, the New Jersey senator thanked his followers. "I am very proud of what we have built and I have faith in what we can achieve together."
The message is accompanied by a video that summarizes some of Booker's participation in debates, interviews and political events. "I will support whoever the Democratic candidate wins the nomination," Booker says in the video.
https://twitter.com/CoryBooker/status/1216751780345864193
Just a few minutes after I posted this message, President Donald Trump mocked Booker with a tweet which says that after hearing the news "Now I can rest easy tonight. I was sooo worried that it would have to confront face to face someday" .
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1216755243712643073
Booker, 50, intended to reach the White House with the slogan "Where there is unity, there is strength." The senator proposed an ambitious measure last May to regulate the possession of firearms, with a federal license subject to criminal background checks.
As for immigration, Booker has been a tough critic of the Trump administration, whom he has accused of carrying out an "inhuman" policy on the border separating families. And in favor of regularizing dreamers or dreamers, children who arrived without documents from their parents.
"I have a vision not only against Donald Trump, I have a vision for people," Booker said in Spanish in an interview with Telemundo News.
In the polls, Booker was in the last places, with 1.8% of the preferences. The favorite in the polls is still former Vice President Joe Biden, with about 30% of the votes; behind Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, with between 20% and 14%, and Mayor Pete Buttigieg, with about 8%. The other candidates barely reach 5% at best.
To the descent of Booker, the one of the writer Manianne Williamson is added, who withdrew her candidacy last week.
Earlier, former Texan Congressman Beto O'Rourke, Senator Kamala Harris, and Julian Castro, former Secretary of Housing in the Barack Obama administration, had also withdrawn from the Democratic struggle.
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