warren, those are the folks who really send a buzz through the crowd. people want to touch them. people want to be around them. that s something that i think will serve him really well, particularly in a state like iowa, particularly in a state like new hampshire where you are in those living rooms talking to people, telling your story and trying to connect with them. we ll see what happens obviously on south carolina, with african-american women being a really important voting block there as well as african-american men and white women as well. he has to prove he can do well with white voters. that s the way that obama was able to persuade black voters that he could win a general election. so that trip to iowa for cory booker is going to be incredibly important as well as the work that he s doing in south carolina. he s already trying to amass a talented team down there, talk to folks down there. he s going to have a real blockbuster team in south carolina as well as the others. jac
over. i m so glad i got out about the cory booker phenomenon took over the yale law school. just his raw political talent. he s a force to be reckoned with. cory booker is a force of nature. he has no one sis surprised he s running. don t forget, he left yale law school, could have gone anywhere in the world, went to newark new jersey, moved into the poorest neighborhood and ban the most improbable climb from working with folks in housing projects to living in a housing projects and working for the united states. he s not a normal person, not a normal candidate. he s somebody who brings an extra gear when it comes to energy and empathy and you ll see this throughout the rest of his campaign. nia, i heard you in the background saying he s not a normal candidate. van describing him as a force of
position on everything from the war to the right position for a liberal democrat from the war to women s issues, et cetera. i think cory booker, he s not been tested yet in those waters, sort of industrial heartland water, you know. can you see cory book we are a hard hat on and pull that offly? don t know. you haven t seen him try those kind of things yet. that s going to be the big test for him. the other big test for him is going into south carolina, you re going to see a heavyweight battle between kamala harris and cory booker for the black vote. and biden. if biden gets in too, bide aens got strong ties in south carolina. he hasn t been as active down there already in terms of telling people what he s going to do and wait on the sidelines. one of the things about obama is he did have that ability to go into those working-class, white-working-class communities partly because he was an noir, a
going to have a lot of these candidates competing for the same people. you talk about kamala harris and cory booker, there s been reporting they ve been reporting there s various members of the black caucus in the house. cory booker has made criminal justice reform a part of his being, right? he just helped push it through the senate. kamala harris is going that s going to be a big point of contention between the two of them because of her role as a prosecutor, as the ag when she was in california. i think we ll hear a lot of exchanges between the two of them about that issue in particular, because that s going to be one of the ways they try separate themselves from in the lane that they re both in. there s been a lot of talk about taking certain voting blocks, certain demographics for granted as we know over the last number of years. and john, one of the things that stood out to me, we were talking to michael a short time ago and asking him what his listeners were saying about t
dlir differentiator. we have more mayors than governors in the race. he has lowered unemployment, lowered crime, but there was the criticism from his successor. did you see the more on meet the press than in the streets toward the end of his term. that s one of the things, he s been a media figurehead for so long, can he keep that freshness and energy? but is he a raw talent that really stands out in any political field. i think he backed off a lot of the media ever aught last four over the last four or five years in anticipation of getting in this race. van, i ve heard you say no one should assume that any one voter or voting block is going to follow any one candidate for any run reason. cory booker, complicated, interesting, as you said. he also, if he s been criticized for something it s for being too close to wall street, right? he is a senator from new jersey. this is an interesting year to running with elizabeth warren and other very critical of wall street. cory booker is some