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Cory Booker

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) announced Friday, Feb. 8 that he would be running for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Booker joins a long and diverse list of potential democratic nominees. Bernie Sanders is expected to launch a campaign for the 2020 election and Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris have already announced their bids and started campaigning.

At 49, Booker is the youngest candidate among the Democratic field and if elected would be the first unmarried president since 1884. Booker’s announcement came on the first day of Black History Month. The announcement suggests Booker will be focusing his own background and upbringing to push forward his campaign.

In Booker’s announcement video he explains how he is “the only senator who goes home to a low-income, inner-city community” in Newark.