nature. where does he fit in in this increasingly crowded field? i think van thihits on great points. you can see it in the introductory interview, he s got the marching band. it feels very young and fresh. cory booker is someone people have known about for years. if you go back to 2002 there was a new york times magazine article that said he would likely be the first black president that. was in 2002. of course now he s trying to be the second black president. i think his path looks a lot like obama s. in many ways kamala harris s does too, not only that you do well with african-american voters, young voters, as well as women. these are people who occupying the same lane in many ways and it s not just because they re african american, it s because they re fresh faces and they ve already zeroed in on key constituencies and have some sway with them. the interesting thing about booker is he was doing a lot of things that we see bait toe
shuffling children into cages and coffins. where we see the faces of our leaders on television and feel pride, not shame. it is not a matter of can we, it s a matter of do we have the collective will, the american will? i believe we do. together we will channel our common pain back into our common purpose. together, america, we will rise. i m cory booker and i m running for president of the united states of america. so today cory booker answering one question, will he run for president? and the next question, how will he fair in this crowded democratic primary? one of the mott diverse in history if not the most diverse in history. one advantage he could have is that he has a rau political talent the democrats point to. one of the challenges, this is a year of the woman. woman candidates running. he s going to go on the view today for his first interview after he rolls out his campaign and then off to iowa, south
taking my vote for granted just because of who i am. and that s an important reminder too is we re seeing that courting is important, but people are people and they won t more, they don t want just a one dimensional candidate. of course. it s time as a country we have this incredibly diverse field of the folks already running, the straight white guys think there there s one candidate right now. that speaks to the evolution of american politics and the democratic party. but it speaks about the need to transcend our tribalism and the ethic algra bra doesn t work so much as being a compelling candidate with a great message and record. and cory booker, as you heard him say, this is something who have laid expectations early on. people usually don t get a new york times interviews. nonsuccessful. nonsuccessful mayoral race. you get a sense of that trajectory, he has executive experience, that s a important
o rourke doing now, the things that we see aoc doing, heavy on twitter and instagram and social media and energizing young folks. we ll see if he can keep thand co that spirit alive in this race. he has been around so long, if he can keep that freshness going forward in this race. his social media has been around for a long time. he was early on in that. yeah. it was practically before social media. cory booker predates the social media game and helped usher it in. jackie noted this is easily the most diverse candidate we have ever seen. we can pick up the pictures of the people who have already announced and/or are exploring. you have five women, you have a latino in julian castro, you have the mayor buttigieg who is gay in the say very diverse field already. that s why we re talking a lot about lanes because we re
is an open question. but could a cory booker too? i m looking more could cory booker bring those people back into the fold? what does he have that could win them over to his side? that s an open question, it really is. that s going to be one of his challenges. it s interesting, one of the open questions is democrats try to decide just one second, van, on what happened in 60, you know, cha what do you say snore it the white working class that didn t vote for hillary clinton or turnout was down in milwaukee and philadelphia? and those were two different analysis that were run in 2016 and how they can bridge that gap and address those deficits. could be both and that s what sherrod brown is trying to argue. van, go ahead. i was going to say one thing. one thing about sherrod brown is that he is an unusual candidate in that he s for the white working class, but he s never allowed himself to be defined by that in that when he talks about workers he talks about african americans,