Senator Cory Booker has announced that he is retiring from the race for the Democratic nomination ahead of this year's elections.
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Booker, 50, intended to reach the White House with the slogan "Where there is unity, there is strength."
The senator from New Jersey proposed last May an ambitious measure to regulate the possession of firearms, which has given much to talk about. The basic approach is that all gun buyers should have a federal license, subject to criminal background checks, but also advocate for security training and interviews.
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.
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Senator Kamala Harris, and Julian Castro, former Secretary of Housing in the Barack Obama administration, had also withdrawn from the Democratic struggle.
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