Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) took to Twitter to give an “unvarnished look” at the state of his campaign’s finances — and the prognosis is grim.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1250127
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) took to Twitter to give an “unvarnished look” at the state of his campaign’s finances — and the prognosis is grim.
I’ll bet his 3% of the primary vote is just terrified.
He’s right, he doesn’t have a legitimate path forward. I like Cory Booker, but his campaign for President isn’t going anywhere. It’s time he (and several other Democratic candidates) saw the writing on the wall. The crowd needs thinning sooner rather than later.
Completely agree, this is the problem of the Dems having an embarrassment of riches…
I like Cory Booker and will be sorry to see him go, although I agree the field needs thinning. I am concerned that if the field narrows to the big 3, we will be choosing among candidates that I think would have serious difficulties / flaws in the general election and if elected as President.
I’d say that he’s proven himself able and talented but this is not his moment. I’ve never seriously considered voting for him in the primary, but would be open to supporting him in a future election or for a different office.
I live in NJ, have given to plenty of Democratic campaigns in the past, liberal causes, etc. and I have sent countless emails and letters to Booker over the years. I should be on every list he has.
Number of times I have received an email from him asking for $?
Zero.
I have never understood that.
It is the primary folks. Lots of people will be disappointed when their preferred candidate doesn’t make the cut. We will need to move beyond personal resentments in the general election, and support the party nominee.
Booker is one of the few candidates who has walked the walked most his entire life while working hard to help others and is also one of the few that openly talks about empathy, something sorely lacking in this country right now (and for the past few decades). I’m glad he made a run for the Presidency, I hope he does so again.
He needs $1.7 mil in the next several days, but it won’t stop there. I don’t doubt this is for real, but maybe it’s a wake up call for him and others of just how much it will take probably to go nowhere.
@sickneffintired Looks like the bottom five should say bye bye.
Hey, Corey, keeping you out of the race means you can’t rig the system for Big Pharma who really calls all the shots with your “policy” ideas. You’re a totally tainted candidate with literally a ZERO chance of getting the nomination…and you’d never win the general election. Go back to sucking money out of the Big Pharma pockets and doing the dirty work of helping Big Pharma gouge the living hell out of US citizens. Buh, Bye, Baby.
Or, on a more positive note, he can work like hell to help D nominee retake NJs neighbor state–Pennsylvania-- in 2020. Nothing could be more important or more helpful to Booker’s own political future.
As I noted elsewhere, this kind of comment is not helpful. We are going to need the support of Booker voters, even if they are a relatively small number. (The process is probably extra disappointing for voters who never even get to vote for their preferred candidate in the primary.) If it is necessary to eat crow by voting for the nominee in the general election, the least that the rest of us can do is try not to make it more bitter. Being a good winner may be more important than being a good loser.
He is a smart guy, and politically astute. I suspect that he knows this and will do exactly that. (It almost seems harder for the rank and file voters than it is for the candidates.)
Hey, why didn’t you show us Marianne Love Guru’s numbers? It’s discrimination.
Problem w decimals?
Or that those danged statisticians haven’t been able to calculate the power of love in any comparative to standard fundraising.
she joined another movement
It is infinite, or so I think I have heard, so they can just use ~