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Guess who just cleared his schedule for Donald Trump’s Senate trial? After missing the cut in tomorrow’s debate and likely any others in the future, Cory Booker announced an end to his presidential campaign. “I’m so proud of what we’ve built,” Booker told his supporters, while vowing to fight on … but not as a contender for the nomination:
CNN notes that the Democratic presidential field just got a little more monochromatic:
The New Jersey Democrat’s announcement came a day before six presidential candidates will participate in the CNN/Des Moines Register’s debate in Des Moines, Iowa. He did not qualify for the event. It also came as the Senate gears up for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
“Our campaign has reached the point where we need more money to scale up and continue building a campaign that can win — money we don’t have, and money that is harder to raise because I won’t be on the next debate stage and because the urgent business of impeachment will rightly be keeping me in Washington,” Booker wrote.
His announcement marks another departure of a high-profile black candidate from the 2020 race. After not making the December debate, Booker criticized the rules that kept him from qualifying for the event and was outspoken about the growing lack of diversity on stage.
The other “departure of a high-profile black candidate” was Kamala Harris at the beginning of December. Both Booker and Harris have high national profiles because of their status as US Senators, but Harris’ collapse was a lot more surprising. Booker didn’t have much going for him other than his Spartacus antics, but all Harris had to do was remain competitive until the California primary. Instead, she turned out to be a historically bad candidate, having..
