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US Sen. Cory Booker Refuses to Endorse Zohran Mamdani for NYC Mayor
Booker, a former presidential candidate known for his progressive rhetoric and background in community activism, has often walked a careful line when it comes to the party’s internal divisions. When asked last week by CNN reporter Manu Raju whether he would support Mamdani, a far-left democratic socialist, Booker said, “I have learned a long time ago, to let New York politics be New York politics. We have enough challenges in New Jersey.”
Citing heated gubernatorial and legislative races, Booker said his energy will be devoted to his home state of New Jersey before adding, “New York City, I love you. You’re my neighbor. You’re about 10 miles from where I live. You guys figure out your elections. I’m going to be focused on mine.”
Booker’s response came after he dodged an initial question from Raju asking if the senator would support Mamdani, who won the New York City Democratic mayoral in June.
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cilla4progress
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Grins
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yardwork
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Bluetus
(2,276 posts)He won the primary. Cuomo is now trying to cut in as an Independent.
So, perhaps we agree that the correct response is "I absolutely support my Party's nominee. That nominee, selected by the voters of NYC, is Zohran Mamdani. He has my unqualified support. Any questions?"
F any Dem who cannot say that.
cadoman
(1,617 posts)This is an emerging wedge issue. Older voters still have unconditional allegiance to Israel, but younger voters experience the Palestinian "holocaust" firsthand through social media. MAGA has gone full-tilt in support of Israel, but that unconditional support is beginning to cost them political support.
I don't know if this is a situation where it's more beneficial to pick a side, or to try and split the difference like Harris did. The game theory seems to be if you pick Israel now you win, but Palestine seems to have more upside for future elections. If the difference can be split, I think it'll have to be done by a singular master of statecraft.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)If you don't see a Jewish boogeyman behind every bush, it's fairly easy to see why a senator from NJ might want to tread carefully with the Cuomos in the mix.
It's Andrew Cuomo's insistence on running even though he lost the primary that is causing the problem.
cadoman
(1,617 posts)It has nothing to do with boogeymen. Booker has deep personal and financial ties to the Jewish community. It makes sense that he wouldn't overreach to endorse Mamdani, whose rhetoric towards Israel is a mixed bag.
I also checked the history of endorsements and it turns out that outside-state endorsements are extremely rare. The only instance I found of a non-NY Senator endorsing a mayoral candidate was Bernie Sanders in 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_New_York_City_mayoral_election
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EDIT: And I do agree that the thrashing vestiges of the Cuomo dynasty are the biggest problem/potential spoiler here.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)It's a non-issue. Smart politicians don't waste political capital on non-issues.
Smart Democrats don't form circular firing squads.
cadoman
(1,617 posts)And then he did. Cuomo was as high as 92% favored and 68% favored before the election.
https://polymarket.com/event/who-will-win-dem-nomination-for-nyc-mayor
https://polymarket.com/event/new-york-city-mayoral-election
In politics, things are certain till they're not. Don't let me steal your certainty, just offering food for thought to the forum. Old political dynasties are dynasties for a reason...
yardwork
(68,945 posts)However, I'm reading the room and it's telling me that old is out and new is in.
There are numerous smart reasons for Booker and other Democrats to stay out of this and not waste political capital on something that doesn't matter to the federal crisis we're facing right now.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)It's all hands on deck from the tiniest Borough Councilwoman up to our Senators and current Governor to ensure we keep our trifect.
I've lived in NJ for 19 years. I remember what a joke we were with Christie.
I do NOT want Shitarelli. Booker is beloved here. His time for electioneering needs to be focused on the people of NJ.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)It also now makes even more sense why the usual channels are dumping on Booker over a made up issue.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)NJ keeping it's Trifecta and VA becoming one are far more important.
There are 8.48 Million people that live in NYC.
There are 9.5 Million people that live in NJ.
There are 8.8 Million people that live in VA.
Mamdani can't do jack shit for any of us in NJ or VA. But in NJ? Senators Booker and Kim CAN.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)It's just a made-up purity test with a strong odor of antisemitism thrown in.
Has Mamdani even asked for Booker's endorsement?
Ultimately it looks like a bunch of whining on behalf of a candidate who is winning.
It would be laughable if this exact behavior hadn't led to the crisis we're in.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)Mamdani has got this. It's ONE city in NY.
We MUST keep NJ State Government Blue.
Do or die time or we will end up like Mississippi with sewage in our backyards.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)by Julia Manchester - 06/03/25 12:41 PM ET
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) endorsed former Virginia Del. Jay Jones (D) for state attorney general Tuesday ahead of the primary this month, becoming the latest national Democrat to wade into Virginia’s downballot races this year.
“Jay Jones will be a tireless fighter for Virginia families as Attorney General, and that’s why I’m so excited to announce my endorsement today,” Booker said in a statement. “Jay Jones has the vision, commitment, and integrity to keep families safe and make sure every Virginian gets a fair shake in the justice system. I’ll be working every day to ensure Jay wins this race.”
Jones is running against fellow Democrat Shannon Taylor, who serves as the commonwealth’s attorney for Henrico County; the primary is June 17.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5330512-cory-booker-endorses-jay-jones/
That is presumably a huge problem for New Jersey, if Booker's time is so precious that he can't say "I support Mamdani" in an interview.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)The NYC mayoral primary was already held. Mamdani won.
Again, U.S. politics are a little complicated with the differing state to state timelines. A bunch of Democrats are involved in the VA primary. There's a lot at stake. As in NJ. This might be confusing to non-Americans. I get it. I'm careful what I say about the British political system because there's a lot I don't know about it.
The mayor's office in NYC is not particularly relevant to statewide or national politics, and it looks like Mamdani already has it in the bag.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)when he's running against the incumbent Republican. That would be truly shitty politicking.
You really think the VA Attorney General race is more important to NJ politics than the MYC mayor, when nearly half a million residents work there? Or to national politics? I can't believe anyone could say that with a straight face.
The thing is, people in this thread are saying that Booker doesn't have the time or resources to say "I support Mamdani". So a promise to work every day on the Jones campaign seems, by that yardstick, to be a bad move.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)The mayor's race for NYC is not very important to national politics. Also, the election will certainly be won by a Democrat, Mamdani is way ahead, etc. There's no need for Booker to expend political capital or take any risks regarding that race.
And I don't know who has said that Booker's choice of words is due to lack of time or resources. It's due to the smart decision not to weigh into a race that doesn't matter much. Every time a politician endorses someone there's a price to be paid, an opportunity cost. Booker wisely didn't take the bait.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)Avid supporters aren't thinking this through. Booker's ties to AIPAC are all over this thread.
Has it occurred to them that a lot of Mamdani's voters hate AIPAC?
That a Booker endorsement would hurt him?
yardwork
(68,945 posts)With a dollop of anti-Black racism thrown in.
In another thread somebody you'll recognize is complaining about Chris Cuomo demanding a similar litmus test of AOC. The irony is incredible.
Where are these litmus tests coming from? Russia.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)And then another replied "Makes perfect sense." Who was that? Oh, it was you.
And saying VA Attorney General is more important nationally, or to NJ, than NYC mayor is just absurd. Look at what we're talking about, for a start. Look at what the world's media talks about. Your just lose all credibility by trying to pretend it.
Again, this stupid "expend political capital" phrase. Such a waste of time to read it. There is no "political capital" spent in answering a question with "yes, I support the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor", especially when Mamdani is popular with Democrats and Independents. And there's no "opportunity cost" - I suggest you look up the meaning of that term.
It's clear that several DUers hate Mamdani, and are clutching at straws to justify any way of preventing people paying attention to him and his ideas.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)I absolutely believe VA is more important than NYC.
NYC always does its own thing.
On election night this November - Mamdani wins. There will accolades about his campaign and the spirit of NYC.it won't be considered a bellwether of things to come.
But VA and NJ being all Blue? Especially with the shenanigans we know are going to occur with voter intimidation?
That's a BFD.
For your own knowledge - in 1981 Roger Stone orchestrated mass voter intimidation enabling Tom Keane to win by 1,797 votes.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2020/11/voter-suppression-in-nj-kean-florio-election-rnc-flying-squads-roger-stone-john-roberts/
The Consent Decree is no longer in place.
VA
Trump’s DOJ Voluntarily Dismisses Case Challenging Virginia’s Voter Purge Program
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trumps-doj-voluntarily-dismisses-case-challenging-virginias-voter-purge-program/
It's go time in VA and NJ.
With Bookers ties to AIPAC littered throughout this thread - don't you think that would hurt Mamdani? Like a lot of his supporters hate AIPAC too.
electric_blue68
(25,781 posts)JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)Coming after my Beloved Senator and Me on this thread don't understand. They never will.
Black women are moving with intent.
We know that the only ones who will help us are ourselves and Democratic Elected officials.
If the folks having a meltdown over Mamdani stay focused on that - that means they don't have the time or energy to stop our preparation for Self- Defense against what is coming towards us at a fast clip . . . im AmeriKKKa.
I need them distracted.
electric_blue68
(25,781 posts)JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)That's another trifecta state! VA and NJ on deck!.
And I'm going to say - its nice to see one Black man support another.
Black folks? We've got to stick together back here in 1919.
All skin folk ain't kin folk. Like the magapubs choice for Gov in VA. She's in the sunken place with Candace Owens.
We are America too! We've been here since 1619. This one I'm on board with because Black folks can't turn our backs on other Black folks.
That might be a hard thing to read - but outside of DU? We aren't nice people anymore. We've always stood up for others only to have them spit in our faces.I hope every single member of the CBC endorses him.
He's earned it. And - he comes from a good family.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)Better to put time aside every day for an Attorney General race 100 miles away from his state?
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)He's going to be in VA every single day?
You are too much!
As my brother says -
Love, peace, and hair grease!
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)He said he's going to devote plenty of time to the VA AG race; and yet you worried that him answering "yes, I support Mamdani" would divert him from important NJ campaigning. I don't think you're in a position to be laughing.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)He knows there are Black Gun Clubs popping up all over the state.
He doesn't care! I'm laughing all the way to the gun range Sunday morning.
He knows Black women in his state have more to fear from the white guy down the block than what is happening in the middle east.
We also know that the average person screaming "Genocide Joe" last year has zero fucks to give about us.
We saw it, we see it. Same people were all about BLM and peaceful solutions. Where they at?
Nowhere. We are on our own in this dystopia.
You are far more upset about this than I am. This is your hill to die on. Not mine.
P.S. You called him a liar - not me.That's very unsupportive of a beloved Democratic Senator in NJ.
356. If you assume Booker lies, isn't that a bit unsupportive?
He said he's going to devote plenty of time to the VA AG race; and yet you worried that him answering "yes, I support Mamdani" would divert him from important NJ campaigning. I don't think you're in a position to be laughing.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)What a wretched thread.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)Where a longtime DUer who is Jewish and whose family fled Austria - has a daughter looking into fleeing America for Austria.
I'm not listening to non Jewish people on this issue. I'm believing what Jewish Americans tell me or write.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)As I said elsewhere, they’re hardly bothering to speak in code as it is.
You’ve got a good policy. I try to speak carefully and distinguish my own opinions/experiences from what I can verify, as it’s not my personal lineage and story — I only married in to the tribe, altho I already knew a lot.
Aaaaand, I’ve started deleting whole paragraphs again. I have to stop talking and go buy a washing machine today. The old one was only 16 or 17 years old when it chose to die mid-cycle two days ago.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)My great grandfather (Saba) converted to marry a green eyed strawberry blonde Jewish girl of German heritage (Grammy Hannie). My Grampa converted back to marry my Gran.
Grammy Hannie's influence is why I became a Unitarian 21 years ago. Raised in the Baptist Church, Sunday school teacher.
Also she didn't like her options for black dollies for her only great granddaughter (who was mixed race) so she would spend big bucks having them custom made to look like me. No one makes latkes like she did. No one.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)…then went thru the whole Sunday School and Coming of Age program. My parents-in-law, bless them, would not enter anything called a “church” so the very small wedding took place in the lovely UU courtyard 38 years ago. (I respected that, considering what they went through in Europe in the 1930s—1940s) One of the nicest things for me about a second marriage was the number of things that didn’t intimidate me any more. Loved the holidays, but as we were the only ones left doing them and as my 2 brothers in law were not interested at all once their parents passed on, I let it go in the end after my kids were on their own.
Love the story about your Grammie Hannie and the dolls. ❤️
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vanessa_ca
(613 posts)of Barack Obama
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)Our Governor Candidate is a solid Liberal.
He needs to spend time endorsing her, and our Assembly and Senate candidates.
MANY folks in NJ do not give a fuck about what is going on in NYC.
I'm one. Right now? This bullshit is in our way.
We MUST keep our trifecta at any and all costs - including a mayoral candidate in NYC.
We cannot be subjected to Shitarelli as our Governor.
The Far Left is showing that they do NOT Care about the health and well-being of New Jerseyans, including my constituents - with this bullshit.
They need to focus on the TWO Senators in NY. Where is the anger at them?
UTUSN
(76,834 posts)Prairie Gates
(7,157 posts)Anyone who promotes any of those three on this board should probably be shown the door.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)I hope Booker's endorsement of Sherrill sends him packing. I'm sick of Shitarrelli and his good buddy Trump.
BeyondGeography
(40,803 posts)For sure.
Sewa
(1,572 posts)🤔💀
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)Maybe it has something to do with pulling moderate independents to Democratic Candidates for Governor, Assembly, and State Senate in NJ this year?
Maybe he cares more about the people he represents than people in NYC.
He's SUPPOSED to.
Are you okay with NJ becoming all Red in November? Because the magapubs are ALREADY using Mamdani as a bludgeon against our Candidates.
electric_blue68
(25,781 posts)
jrthin
(5,215 posts)JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)It's the euphemism that he represents New Jersey citizens - not NYC.
oasis
(53,340 posts)
Celerity
(53,608 posts)
Just last year Booker endorsed Alsobrooks in the contentious Maryland (which is far less impactful to NJ than NYC) US Senate Democratic PRIMARY. There was no 'I am not going to get involved in non NJ races' posturing from him there.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)We have enough challenges in New Jersey.”
Alsobrooks was running for Senate, and Booker's a Senator. It made sense to weigh into that tight race that will determine not only who will be his colleague from Maryland, but could determine the balance of power, and who will get to decide on federal nominees.
Mamdani is running for Mayor of NYC, not federal office. And Namdani Mamdani holds a double-digit lead over Cuomo. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5439256-nyc-mayoral-race-mamdani-leads/
Mamdani does not need Booker's endorsement. All Booker's endorsement would do is potentially alienate some of Booker's New Jersey constituents, who he needs to get reelected so that Democrats can protentionally take back the Senate.
Please reserve your hate for Republicans, not our own, who are just trying to make their smartest steps to beat back the dictator in the White House.
Celerity
(53,608 posts)trying (along with a gaggle of RW billionaires, etc) to game out a way to defeat our Democratic nominee in the general.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)Celerity
(53,608 posts)
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)You are implying Booker's a traitor and a hypocrite for not explicitly endorsing Mamdani for Mayor, like he did for Alsobrooks for Senate. I explained why the two situations just aren't comparable. And, you are also suggesting that the lack of Booker's endorsement will somehow hurt Mamdani. It won't. Mamdani is winning by double digits.
Celerity
(53,608 posts)with a Democrat's stance is not bashing them.
If that was the case then, as I already stated to you, there are hundreds of thousands (millions?) of DU posts over the past 24 and a half years that are 'bashing' according to your problematically expansive definition of bashing.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)Celerity
(53,608 posts)associate me with saying Booker is a 'traitor'. You have 3 times now said I 'am implying' he is a 'traitor'. That is an false construct that you have spun up in a repeated attempt to smear me.
I never called Booker 'a traitor' nor implied it. That is your wilfully false invented spin and to try to wrongfully associate me with such incendiary language is absolutely a personal attack upon me.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)And you said,
This is NOT a normal NYC general. Trump is now directly in contact (aided in that by the execrable Mark Penn) with the sore loser and serial sexual harasser Cuomo, trying (along with a tonne of scumbag RW billionaires) desperately to game out a defeat of our Democratic Party's nominee in the general."
That is suggesting Booker is complicit, contrary to the interests of his voters, in Trump’s attempt to "game out a defeat of our Democratic Party's nominee in the general." In other words, you implied Booker is a traitor.
Take a deep breath, Celerity. I am not attacking you personally. I don't know you. I just disagree with your posts in this thread bashing Dem Booker.
It's 12:30 am where I'm at. I'm going to bed. Good night.
Celerity
(53,608 posts)more 'impactful' on NJ than Maryland is. That is a fact.
The rest of my words you quoted do not state nor imply I am labelling Booker a 'traitor'. That wilfully loaded use of the word 'traitor' is all your false, derogatory smearing of me via your repeated attempts to link me to the word.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)yardwork
(68,945 posts)There is a definite implication in this thread that Booker is a traitor to the Democratic Party. He's also been called "cowardly," beholden to AIPAC and shadowy "Jewish power brokers," and a lot of other names here.
All because he deftly avoided being pulled into a trap. There's no need or precedent for a U.S. senator to endorse candidates for mayor.
Mamdani is way ahead and most Democrats like him. He doesn't need and afaik has not requested endorsements from out of state politicians.
It's been explained to you that NJ is facing a crucial set of elections. They need Booker at home, without distractions. WE need Booker in the senate.
The whining and purity testing on behalf of a candidate who is way ahead is a sight to see. Y'all need to calm down and learn how to win.
I sure hope Mamdani is better at politics than many of his supporters appear to be.
Nixie
(17,937 posts)No reality about regional politics is needed.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,176 posts)Completely. 
Hekate
(100,132 posts)Good lord’n’butter this thread has gotten nasty. We’re gonna snatch defeat from the jaws of victory again, aren’t we? 
cadoman
(1,617 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_New_York_City_mayoral_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_New_York_City_mayoral_election
The headline really shouldn't be that any given Senator has not endorsed, because that is the norm. The headline should be given when an endorsement occurs, because that is the actual news.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)Why was this question asked and why did the press make a headline of it? Who benefits?
cadoman
(1,617 posts)Publishing the article casts Booker's neutral comment as a "non-endorsement". "Non-endorsement" is a negative framing of a neutral position, especially when there is literally no historical precedent of NJ Senators endorsing NYC mayoral candidates.
What is actually the news here is the outlets pushing this:
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/08/04/us-sen-cory-booker-refuses-endorse-zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor/
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sen-cory-booker-refuses-endorse-zohran-mamdani
These are big power broker outlets that clearly do not like Mamdani and want to create a perception of non-support.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)cadoman
(1,617 posts)The assumption is that because it's printed at a "news outlet", that it must be news.
Even more problematically, a thread and our discussion give it credibility as news. Enthusiastic involvement of longtime posters especially legitimizes it, regardless of what side they take.
Thus, rather than identifying and eliminating the psy-op, we embraced and amplified it.
The solution would be to have a forum policy against embracing psychological operations that damage Democrats, but I don't think the forum body is quite ready to go there yet, or even acknowledge that it happens, despite the plain logical evidence here to the contrary.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)And I think that Cuomo, who seems to be on some kind of revenge tour, is hooking up with Trump, or so I read recently.
So if anyone is going to be called a traitor to the Dem Party, why hasn’t Cuomo’s name come up? Why are some Dems and alleged Dems once again aiming directly at our best and brightest rising stars?
yardwork
(68,945 posts)Yet somehow Booker is the problem and not Cuomo, who lost the primary and insists on running anyway.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)yardwork
(68,945 posts)Attacking Booker seems to be the pretense for attacking Jewish people and AIPAC. In that sense this is part of a pattern.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)You and I both can remember the 20th century’s proxy wars — ugly, destructive, a lot of territory ravaged, and a lot of innocent bystanders maimed and killed.
It will become a helluva metaphor for Democratic politics in the 21st century if we’re not careful.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)It's like refusing to vote in a general election - that might be "not supporting a Republican" too, but it still helps them, compared to what you'd expect of a Democratic representative.
So you're wrong. Booker needs criticising, to remind him which party he belongs to, what the choice of that party in its NY primary was, and what "party" means.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)https://newjerseyglobe.com/governor/booker-kim-murphy-endorse-sherrill-for-governor-following-primary-victory/
Ballotpedia has a short list of his endorsements. Only two appear to be out of State (Barnes and Alsbrooks) for potential colleagues in the Senate.
Mikie Sherrill's Platform - and it mirrors our Assembly Candidates this year:
https://www.mikiesherrill.com/issues/public-safety-and-justice#block-f38b84c1-9790-4cdc-97ab-3eb4633e935b
I'm beginning to think that far Leftists want NJ to live in the same utter hellscape that Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, etc. etc. live in. Why else would they try to draw a beloved Senator into NYC when we in New Jersey SHOULD matter more to OUR Senator than people in NYC.
I don't understand this media attack on Booker.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)It's not as if Booker has a limited number of time he can say "yes", or a limited number of Democrats he can say he supports. He wasn't asked "what matters more to you".
Are you saying the thread starter is a "far leftist" because they've told DUers that Booker wouldn't say he supported a fellow Democrat in a general election?
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)The Media Source is. And the reality is -
Mamdani could NEVER win a state wide election in NJ.
That's not a thing.
Anything MYYYYYYY Senator does that could be used against Sherrill, Freiman or Drulis in November cannot be done.
Also - considering as he is being written about in this thread as aipac ruled Senator -
Does that hurt their guy Mamdani? I would think it does.
Me - I could give a shit less if he gets funding from aipac - as long as he votes in the Senate by the will of the Democratic Party members in NJ who vote for him.
So - is there pushback to people questioning his aipac ties?
Or just the person who will have to live in a magapub HELL SCAPE if Shittarelli gets into office?
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)Booker knows damn well which party he belongs to. Stop bashing Booker. He is doing what is best for his voters and the Democratic Party. Namely, he is staying out of an NYC mayoral race where the Dem is handily winning, to make sure he does not alienate any of his statewide voters unnecessarily.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)if senior politicians in are scared to support a popular Democrat for fear of alienating Republican voters.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)That does not indicate Mamdani is "popular."
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)and a good chance of winning election. Not as popular as Bernie Sanders, I grant you.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)He's got a double digit lead against all of his opponents.
He doesn't need Booker's endorsement, nor did he ask for it. It makes no sense to bash Booker.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)can't answer "do you support him?" with "yes"?
Why are so many DUers so keen to see Democratic politicians ignore each other? Don't you want a party to act as a party?
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)That was in 2009. Not sure what you mean by "reached out" to Adams, but Booker has not endorsed any mayor since he's been Senator.
Numerous folks in this thread have explained why it could hurt Booker in a NJ statewide race to endorse Mamdani. He is not ignoring Mamdani, he is just staying out of it. It's not worth the risks. NJ statewide is a lot more conservative than NYC. As you and I discussed at length yesterday, 56% of registered voters in NYC are Democrats, but only 40% of voters in NJ are Democrats. Booker has much less leeway in NJ. I think he is walking the tightrope well.
Yes, we should "act as a party," and stop needlessly bashing good Dems like Booker. We need him in the senate.
Nancy Pelosi famously said she didn't care if other Dems distanced themselves from her or not. "Just win baby," she said. I bet if you asked Mamdani, he would say the same thing about Booker: Just win baby. Mamdani doesn't need nor has he asked for Booker's endorsement.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)And now we find he's been happy to endorse non-Democrats in the past. The only explanation was "there's money in every political race". Yeah, rich people don't want anyone endorsing Mamdani. Booker has decide to cave to them, rather than support a Democrat.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts) MorbidButterflyTat
(4,176 posts) 
betsuni
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baselessly accusing them of doing nothing, fake anger that Democrats didn't stop all the bad things, both sides. Republicans love it.
Oh, forgot the 
AIPAC Illuminati Special Magic Corrupting Campaign Donations conspiracy theory.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)Nixie
(17,937 posts)No broader understanding of political realities are needed.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)This entire thread seems to be an excuse to use antisemitic tropes to attack and write off a solid progressive Democratic senator.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)Like the "uncommitted" movement did in 2024.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)We need him endorsing OUR candidates in a Trifecta year.
My fate is in no way, shape, or form tied to NYC.
We have GOT to pull moderates and indies to keep the magapub's greedy little russian loving mitts off of Trenton.
Cha
(316,680 posts)in the Senate for New Jersey and America.
He shouldn't be forced to endorse someone in New York.
oasis
(53,340 posts)handling himself.
I’m happy to see you’re likeminded.
Cha
(316,680 posts)this issue!
Cha
(316,680 posts)handled this too.
Celerity
(53,608 posts)
Millions of Booker's own NJ residents (and voters) are directly and profoundly linked and tied to NYC.
This is NOT a normal NYC general. Trump is now directly in contact (aided in that by the execrable Mark Penn) with the sore loser and serial sexual harasser Cuomo, trying (along with a tonne of scumbag RW billionaires) desperately to game out a defeat of our Democratic Party's nominee in the general.
Hassin Bin Sober
(27,372 posts)… with a sitting Democratic Senator not endorsing the party’s nominee in a major race. 
“forced”
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)As I said to you above, Mamdani is running for Mayor of NYC, not federal office. And Namdani Mamdani holds a double-digit lead over Cuomo. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5439256-nyc-mayoral-race-mamdani-leads/
Mamdani does not need New Jersey Senator Cory Booker's endorsement. All Booker's endorsement would do is potentially alienate some of Booker's New Jersey constituents, who he needs to get reelected so that Democrats can protentionally take back the Senate.
Please reserve your hate for Republicans, not Dems who are just trying to make their smartest steps to beat back the dictator in the White House. Your Booker bashing only helps Trump.
Celerity
(53,608 posts) SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)As I stated above, you are implying Booker's a traitor and a hypocrite for not explicitly endorsing Mamdani for Mayor, like he did for Alsobrooks for Senate. I explained why the two situations just aren't comparable. And, you are also suggesting that the lack of Booker's endorsement will somehow hurt Mamdani. It won't. Mamdani is winning by double digits.
Celerity
(53,608 posts)hundreds of thousands (millions?) of 'bashing Dems' posts on DU put up over the past 24 and a half years.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)You are implying Booker's a traitor and a hypocrite for not explicitly endorsing Mamdani for Mayor, like he did for Alsobrooks for Senate. I explained why the two situations just aren't comparable. And, you are also suggesting that the lack of Booker's endorsement will somehow hurt Mamdani. It won't. Mamdani is winning by double digits.
I disagree with some Dem's strategy and positions, but I don't lay into them for no reason. It serves no constructive purpose to bash Booker for staying out of the NYC race. The Journal cited in the OP is obviously happy Booker didn't endorse Mamdani. Let it go. You're only helping Trump at this point.
Celerity
(53,608 posts)It is absolutely rubbish, a naked attempt to falsely associate me with inflammatory words that I never said nor implied.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)Pointing out false framing is not a "personal attack." You brought up the "false framing" charge first, against me. Did you mean it as a personal attack?
Celerity
(53,608 posts)I am "implying' that he is a 'traitor'.
You know damn well how loaded the word 'traitor' is and you repeatedly, openly, trying to falsely associate me and link me with that word, that construct YOU introduced, is beyond the pale.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)And please stop with the duplicate posts. Stick to one subthread, please.
Celerity
(53,608 posts)initiated.
None of my replies were 'duplicates'. I typed each one out separately in response to you having go after go at me first.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)
Scrivener7
(58,247 posts)Celerity
(53,608 posts)false framings in multiple parts of the thread. I absolutely have a right to defend myself against such personally disparaging postings.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)It is you who is all over this thread attacking anyone who dares support Booker. You entered this subthread with your attacking post #19, complete with a rolling eyes emoji.
Followed by your post #22, also with a rolling eyes emoji. What is "telling" about a DUer supporting Booker? What are you implying about Cha there?
Celerity
(53,608 posts)All over the thread? I replied to 2 posters, neither of whom replied back (as is their right).
Then you jumped in and repeatedly had go after go at me, repeatedly using the absolutely loaded wording that I was implyin Booker was a 'traitor', which is not only false but a wilful use of an incidiary term designed to associate me with a construct that YOU invented.
These are your repeated posts falsely saying I was implying Booker was a 'traitor', all the snapshots have the links embedded. I don't even list some of the multiple other times you had a crack at me.
and
Bottom line, you are the one who is all over the thread repeatedly smearing me and having go after go at me.
Nixie
(17,937 posts)That’s what’ is being highlighted.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)ALL of the posts you cite come after your post #19, as the post numbers make clear; and they are in response to your flury of duplicative subsequent posts in 2 separate subthreads, hence the large number of replies.
It is you who first entered this subthread, not me. It is you who entered this thread with your post #19, attacking Cha for showing support for Senator Booker, with a rolling eyes emoji.
That was followed by your post #22, also with a rolling eyes emoji. What is "telling" about a DUer supporting Booker? What are you implying about Cha there? Why won't you answer that question? Sure sounds like a nasty personal attack on Cha to me. But you refuse to even address THAT personal attack, let alone admit what you were implying.
Celerity
(53,608 posts)That was not a personal attack at all. It was a very specific critique of the poster's support of a specific action taken by Booker.
I was NOT at all criticising general support of Booker, as you and others have tried to disingenuously claim, including in your reply to me just now.
Post 19 was also not a personal attack. It was a specific question in re a term the poster used (okey-doke).
You seem to think that using a rolling eyes emoji auto-equates to a personal attack. That is just a silly notion.
Finally, these claims made by you just now are patent sophistry.
You said:
1. Of course the replies YOU made (the ones I posted in my last reply to you, post 211) happened after my only 2 posts (19 and 22) in the OP thread at that point. You came in and started having go after go at me after I had only posted those 2 replies (post 19 and post 22). My replies to you were all just reactions to your already-existing posts to me.
2. There was no 'flury of duplicative subsequent posts in 2 separate subthreads' that were initiated by me. After post 19 and post 22 (neither adressed to you) you came in with the flurry (the correct spelling) of replies to ME, you did them first. I only replied to you (and I typed each one out, I did not cut and paste any of them, they are each unique) in response to YOUR initial replies to me. There are many replies from me to you because YOU kept coming back and having go after go at me. Like you are now doing once again.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)
I am referring to your statement, "Your open approval of a major Democrat refusing to support the Dem mayoral nominee in a contentious race is telling."
What does her "open approval" of Booker "tell" about Cha? Sure seems like you are suggesting she is a traitor, like you suggested Booker is a traitor.
Celerity
(53,608 posts)which was at 7:39 AM Thursday my time (CET, here in Sweden) (late Wednesday your time if you are in California)
to your last reply to me now at 3:55 AM Friday my time
post 314 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220542038#post314
You have repeatedly, as I have fully documented, attacked me with a false construct, ie saying that I am implying that Booker is a traitor (your words, using the extremely loaded term 'traitor' and trying to associate me with that spun-up framing you chose) AND twice implying that I 'hate' Democrats.
Those replies to me were absolutely personal attacks, smears of me as a DU poster, utilising false aspersions (of your own invention) upon my integrity as a Democrat and as a DU member.
My comment to the other poster was not questioning overall support of Booker, it was a specific comment about a specific action, (Booker not endorsing Mamdani) and action that she approved of, and my reply was well within the ground-rules here on DU. They did not reply, and I had no further interaction with them, the same for my only other reply in the thread (before you started in with me).
You have been targeting me now, on and off, as stated, for over TWENTY straight hours in this one OP thread.
You deliberately chose the inflammatory words/concepts ('traitor' and also implying I 'hate' Dems) and falsely tried, over and over and over, to associate me to them.
It long ago went to a level of clear, repetitive harassment and attacking me via your own self-erected false-framings and it needs to stop.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)What was Cha's support of Booker "telling" about her?
betsuni
(28,693 posts)who won't bash Booker because we're told to are actually secretly cheering on Trump and right-wing billionaires. Oh no, the cat is out of the open bag and it is telling!
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts) 
lapucelle
(20,943 posts)The anchor text in the OP goes to a right wing website, not to a Yiddish language newspaper.
And the wiki article you link to does not say "NYC Jewish newspaper". Those are your words.
Celerity
(53,608 posts)Alegemeiner for short) and it is a centre right Jewish printed newspaper with a website as well. It is all the SAME thing, as I clearly showed in my post 38 ( https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220542038#post38 ) if you had but clicked on the link in my post 38 reply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algemeiner_Journal
The Algemeiner Journal, known informally as The Algemeiner, is a newspaper based in New York City that covers American and international Jewish and Israel-related news. It is widely read by Hasidic Jews.
snip
The Algemeiner's advisory board was chaired by Nobel laureate, writer, and activist Elie Wiesel.Jacobson served as the paper's editor and publisher until his death in 2005, and Gershon's elder son Simon Jacobson became the publisher. He founded the Gershon Jacobson Jewish Continuity Foundation (GJCF), a Jewish media organization with the mission to serve as a voice for Jews and Israel. At this time, circulation was approximately 18,000.
In 2008, Jacobson reconceived Der Algemeiner Journal as an English-language publication, replacing the Yiddish "Der" in the title for "The". That year, Dovid Efune became the editor-in-chief of what was called The Algemeiner and Director of the GJCF. Efune left his position in November 2021 to join The New York Sun, but remained on the board.
In 2012, the GJCF launched the website Algemeiner.com.
snip
Content and circulation
The Algemeiner print edition is published every Friday, except during Passover and Sukkot. In 2023, its circulation is about 23,000. It is widely read by Hasidic Jews, for whom Yiddish is the daily language.
snip
External links
Official website ( https://www.algemeiner.com/ )
click it, it goes to:
Also see your own link to Media Bias Fact Check to show this to be the case as well.(you only posted part of it):
lapucelle
(20,943 posts)lapucelle
(20,943 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)Asking US adults, he has a rating of 55% favorable, 10% unfavorable among Democrats. That's better than, for instance, Kirsten Gillibrand (37/16). Don't try to excuse this with "he's worried about what his constituents would think".
yardwork
(68,945 posts)Booker hasn't done anything wrong.
As you note, Mamdani is very popular in a year when everything is pointing to voters choosing young politicians with new ideas. Mamdani doesn't need the help of so-called "establishment" politicians.
Further, the outcome of the race for NYC mayor isn't especially relevant to the federal crisis we're facing right now.
I find it very interesting that Booker is being attacked for not wasting political capital on a race that is not especially important and is probably a done deal.
I see something very nefarious in this, part of a decade-long effort to divide Democrats and put Republicans in power.
Ask yourself who benefits from bad-mouthing a Democratic senator.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)Yes, that is doing something wrong. He's in the Democratic Party.
Mamdani is running for mayor of the city where nearly half a million of Booker's constituents work. It's very relevant to Booker.
It is not a "waste of political capital" to support a popular fellow party candidate in a general election. It's common fucking sense.
You know very well what's divisive here: It's one Democratic politician refusing to endorse another Democratic politician in a race against non-Democrats. Booker is responsible for this division. I wouldn't call it "nefarious", just dumb, bad politics.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)There's no need or reason for a U.S. senator to endorse a mayoral candidate.
Because Cuomo is in the mix, and because of some of Mamdani's comments about Israel, there is potential harm to Booker's next campaign if he endorses Mamdani. Thanks to the execrable Citizens United decision all U.S. politics is now heavily dependent on money.
We desperately need every Democratic senator to be reelected and to win more seats. Our democracy depends on it.
The mayor's race in NYC, while interesting, really has no relevance to federal politics.
I hope and expect Mamdani to win. If he does, I expect to see many more young, progressive people enter politics. That's a good thing.
But there's no reason for Booker to weigh in. In fact, I'm not sure why Mamdani's supporters would think he needs or even wants help from an establishment politician.
It looks nefarious to me. An excuse to divide Democrats.
Just_Vote_Dem
(3,528 posts)And I think his answer should have been "I support Democratic nominees for elected office"
I think any other answer than that could be misconstrued as divisive.
JMO, of course.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)Just_Vote_Dem
(3,528 posts)yardwork
(68,945 posts)I'm not the one playing gotcha.
This is a non-issue being promoted by right-wing channels in an obvious effort to divide Democrats and hurt both Mamdani and Booker.
Just_Vote_Dem
(3,528 posts)Don't put words in my mouth, that is a classic troll tactic.
Just_Vote_Dem
(3,528 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)and thought so at the time.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)"all U.S. politics is now heavily dependent on money"
So Booker is chickening out of supporting a Democrat because people with money might not like it. Voters would be fine with it; the rich, not so much. Which is a shameful way for a Democratic senator to decide what he says in an interview.
I wish you'd be directing the "nefarious" accusation at the thread starter who you think is being divisive by pointing out Booker's stance, rather than at Democratic voters who have a candidate they like, and people who think that the candidate should be supported.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)I think it's cowardly to put fundraising ahead of the party.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)Mamdani has a 30% approval nationwide, according to your YouGov link. Only 40% of registered voters in NJ are Democrats. In NYC, 56% of registered voters identify as Democrats, 26% as Republicans, and 18% identify as neither. NJ is a very different ball game from NYC. Booker's voters are not the same composition as NYC voters.
I am not "excusing" anything. Nothing Booker did needs "excusing." He didn't do anything wrong. Stop bashing Booker.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)Jeffries: favorable 31%, unfavorable 30% - and among Independents, 22%/32%
Mamdani: 30%, 29%; 25%/26%
Lander: 13%, 13%; 10%/13%
Gillibrand: 23%, 24%; 16%/28%
James: 25%, 28%; 20%/26%
Ocasio-Cortez: 36%, 38%; 29%/40%
Hochul: 20%, 30%; 15%/30%
Nadler: 15%, 25%; 8%/24%
Schumer: 27%, 49%; 20%/51%
Mamdani does better among "Independent" voters even than Jeffries.
Why is is wrong to want Democrats to publicly support Democrats?
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)Not making a formal endorsement does not equate to not supporting, let alone opposition.
Mamdani did not ask for Booker's endorsement and does not need it, so it makes no sense to be upset that Booker didn't issue an endorsement.
Booker did not say he didn't support Mamdani, he just said he was staying out of the NYC mayoral race, leaving it up to New Yorkers (who are 56% Democratic).
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)Hugin argued that registration changes since 2021 are the key metric as voters consider whether to stick with Murphy’s party or flip control of the governor’s seat.
“Now the Democratic brand is probably more negative than the Republican brand,” Hugin said.
Public polls have Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill leading her Republican challenger, Jack Ciattarelli, in the governor’s race. In 2021, Ciattarelli unsuccessfully challenged Murphy, who is barred from seeking a third term in November.
^This is what is at stake.^
By the way - the lead is only at 6%.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)Really. How dare a DUer give "open approval" to a solid progressive Democratic senator?
Sounds ominous.
You might want to rethink how that post sounds.
Celerity
(53,608 posts)simply with 'approval' of Booker overall. You purposely snipped the quote in order to leave out the full context.
I said:
Millions of Booker's own NJ residents (and voters) are directly and profoundly linked and tied to NYC.
This is NOT a normal NYC general. Trump is now directly in contact (aided in that by the execrable Mark Penn) with the sore loser and serial sexual harasser Cuomo, trying (along with a tonne of scumbag RW billionaires) desperately to game out a defeat of our Democratic Party's nominee in the general.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)…murmured “yes” the frame from this newspaper would have been something like “Booker trumpets endorsement of Mamdani! Leaps into the NYC fray!”
Apparently there is only 1 (one) US Senator who goes around endorsing state candidates. Why not ask that Senator why he hasn’t gone all-in for one of the mayoral candidates in the city of his birth?
He doesn't vote there, he isn't endorsing anyone there is how I read it. The headline is misleading.
Cha
(316,680 posts)Gaslighting to Divide Dems.
"Dems in Dissaray".. blah blah blah 
Aloha, Lulu!
Celerity
(53,608 posts)
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)Many of the folks who read that journal oppose Mamdani and would not have taken kindly to Booker endorsing him. The author styled the non-endorsement as a "refusal." Not quite the same thing. But I can see why someone who dislikes Mamdani would want to frame it that way.
Again, smart of Booker to stay the fuck out of it and avoid needlessly turning off some of his voters. Mamdani is winning. Let it go.
lapucelle
(20,943 posts)This is the actual link, as opposed to the anchor text in the OP that leads to the right wing source.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/08/04/us-sen-cory-booker-refuses-endorse-zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor/
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What is a right wing source that's badmouthing a Democrat doing here?
mcar
(45,653 posts)I wonder what all the people bashing Booker on this thread think about their support of a right-wing rag?
lapucelle
(20,943 posts)It's more transparent. There's a lot of link washing on *social media* these days.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)yardwork
(68,945 posts)The one who has posted threads in support of Cuomo in the past?
A bunch of us have noticed.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)yardwork
(68,945 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)
thought crime
(1,184 posts)lapucelle
(20,943 posts)While Algemeiner was described as a "NYC Jewish newspaper", the weekly print edition is more accurately characterized as a Yiddish language weekly tabloid whose target audience is Brooklyn's Hasidic community.
Algemeiner launched an e-paper English version of its weekly Yiddish tabloid in 2010, and the English language conservative website grew out of that.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)They support Netanyahu. They support Trump. They don't reflect the opinions of most Jewish Americans.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)Which is a fairly important point if a poster is going to use Algemeiner and imagine it represents a broader American Jewish opinion toward Democratic candidates.
Also, the Hasidic community is tiny.
At any rate, Senator Booker (NJ-D) did not do what The Alegmeiner accused him of. It was a gotcha question and it’s pretty clear to me that had he answered it otherwise, they still would have framed it negatively.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)lapucelle
(20,943 posts)... all in the service of badmouthing a popular Democratic senator.
electric_blue68
(25,781 posts)( with my underline)
"Orthodox Jews, however, stand out as a small subgroup (roughly one-in-ten Jewish adults) whose political profile is virtually the reverse of Jews as a whole: 60% of Orthodox Jews describe their political views as conservative, 75% identify as Republicans or lean toward the GOP, and 81% approved of Trump’s job performance at the time of the survey."
lapucelle
(20,943 posts)That's why i was surprised to see the Algemeiner described the way it was.
electric_blue68
(25,781 posts)👍
Another ridiculous war on good Democrats exposed.
electric_blue68
(25,781 posts)SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)
Cha
(316,680 posts)Aloha & Mahalo to you! 
Cha
(316,680 posts) 
Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)I stand by his decision and support him in whatever he decides to not-do, or do.
LetMyPeopleVote
(174,739 posts)I am very glad that Senator Booker is in the Senate
Just_Vote_Dem
(3,528 posts)H2O Man
(78,603 posts)A half-step in the direction of a quiet endorsement of the re-tread governor, who lost the primary and is running on another ticket. The Democratic Party should remain democratic, rather than have "leaders" picked by one economic-social sub-group willing to betray a Democratic primary winner.
W_HAMILTON
(10,047 posts)I see that he made an endorsement back in the 2000s when he was also a mayor, but I don't see that he has made any endorsements since becoming a senator -- anyone able to cite a reputable source showing otherwise?
radical noodle
(10,480 posts)of Cory Booker endorsing a mayoral candidate for New York City since he's been a senator. I think some in the media may be trying to stir the pot because why not make this whole thing into a big split in the Democratic Party so they can ignore all the crap trump is doing.
Lulu KC
(8,477 posts)Dems in disarray, again and still.
Jack Valentino
(4,330 posts)to make endorsements or with-hold them for local offices in some other state...
Fiendish Thingy
(21,966 posts)Get out of the new one if you can’t lend a hand…
For the times, they are a changing.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(21,966 posts)It’s the age of the road.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)W_HAMILTON
(10,047 posts)...I'm not sure the times are a changing as much you wish they were.
Elected Democrats -- especially those outside of New York -- have MUCH more pressing matters to tend to than New York City's mayoral race.
Fiendish Thingy
(21,966 posts)And dodging a direct question.
Mamdani doesn’t need to be endorsed by every elected Democrat in the country, but when any elected Democrat is asked about the candidacy of any Democratic nominee for any office, they should express support for that nominee to win that race, rather than using weasel words to evade answering the question directly.
Example of a better answer:
“I’m not making any formal endorsements for races outside of New Jersey, but I wish Mr. Mamdani, and all our Democratic nominees for elected office across the country, all the best in winning their races”.
See the difference between the statement above and Booker’s actual statement?
The statement above, while not a formal endorsement, slams the door shut on any possibility of an endorsement of another candidate who isn’t a Democrat, and shows solidsrity with Mamdani and other Dem candidates.
It’s the least Booker, or any other Dem, can and should do.
vanessa_ca
(613 posts)“I don’t agree with Mr. Mamdani on every position he’s taken but as the winner of the democratic primary, of course I support him in the general election.”
That would show you respect the democratic will of the voters. Sheesh.
calimary
(89,021 posts)Cory Booker should have said this. Cuz it really ISN’T that hard.
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)Many of whom oppose Mamdani, like the folks who read the Journal cited in the OP.
I could not find any record of Booker ever endorsing an NYC mayoral candidate. He is smart to continue to stay out of NYC politics.
Besides, Mamdani does not need Booker's endorsement. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5439256-nyc-mayoral-race-mamdani-leads/
cadoman
(1,617 posts)Publishing the article casts Booker's neutral comment as a "non-endorsement". "Non-endorsement" is a negative framing of a neutral position, especially when there is literally no historical precedent of NJ Senators endorsing NYC mayoral candidates.
What is actually the news here is the outlets pushing this:
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/08/04/us-sen-cory-booker-refuses-endorse-zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor/
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sen-cory-booker-refuses-endorse-zohran-mamdani
These are big power broker outlets that clearly do not like Mamdani and want to create a perception of non-support.
You are witnessing very high-level psychological ops here, masquerading as "news".
vanessa_ca
(613 posts)Democratic Party bigs are painfully aware that voters want to see if they stand by Vote Blue No Matter Who when it comes to progressive candidates or if that only applies to centrist candidates with big money and AIPAC's stamps of approval. It's more than a perception of non support. So far, our party is failing miserably and I hope they come out forcefully, in support of Mamdani, before they sever what ties they have left with the leftist youth vote.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)If there's "a lot of disappointment" that Mamdani is likely going to be the next mayor of NYC, beating out Andrew Cuomo, it sounds like sore winning to me.
Take your win. Stop whining.
And the constant refrain about AIPAC is boring.
sheshe2
(95,817 posts)yardwork
(68,945 posts)Republicans benefit.
Cha
(316,680 posts)too bad that anyone is falling for the Clickbait Divisiveness of that headline. "Dems in Dissaray" !
SunSeeker
(57,496 posts) Cha
(316,680 posts)but missed that the Journal thought it was a good idea...
Why did they think that? TY!
sheshe2
(95,817 posts)Mamdani won his primary for Mayor of NYC. It is a local election, period. My guess is he will win the seat.
We have more serious matters at hand than worry about who endorses who.
Take a deep breath and focus, people.
Cha
(316,680 posts)Dems to bring out the long Knives on Sen Cory Booker.
sheshe2
(95,817 posts)Jeebus C!
TY
betsuni
(28,693 posts)A mayor can't start a revolution in the U.S., no harbinger that the Democratic Party will be destroyed and replaced, no need to get mad and demand everybody bend the knee, have a hive mind, toe the line and so on!
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,176 posts)Or why it seems so stubbornly nasty.
sheshe2
(95,817 posts)i am not sure I recognize this place anymore.
betsuni
(28,693 posts)know what's really going on (all dysfunction in politics caused by money, everyone's bribed by oligarchs and billionaires except the pure hearted passionate fighting heroes -- the only ones who can save us with strongly worded rallies -- but the corrupt Democratic Party despise, are terrified by anything and anyone progressive and plot and rig against them, why establishment centrist status quo AIPAC money money money evil caricature Democrats (today it's Booker) must never be given the benefit of the doubt (untrustworthy, effective especially against Democratic women) -- come to think of it, maybe that's why Democrats are mocked for saying something Christian like Jeffries' tweet -- they see Democrats as deceiving Satans),
So if anyone disagrees with this Good or Evil simplistic Democrat-bashing, one is not wrong, one is immoral, evil, stupid, and treated accordingly. There's always a personal attack. You are the enemy.
Bread and Circuses
(1,544 posts)vanessa_ca
(613 posts)Republicans are getting fed up too
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220542202
Hornedfrog2000
(866 posts)Im not sure anyone will support us going forward. We are completely rudderless, and being blugeoned to death by a foreign country and sociopaths. The answer is you support the dem nominee, and if there was no dem nominee youd support a fucking rock over a republican.
betsuni
(28,693 posts)Cha
(316,680 posts)They're Out there Fighting For Us Everyday!
But it Sure Doesn't help our Democracy when this is posted..
The Title of the OP is Divisive Bull Feathers..
mcar
(45,653 posts)You are aware this is "Democratic Underground" right?
Hekate
(100,132 posts)betsuni
(28,693 posts)Hekate
(100,132 posts)As I pointed out at the bottom of the thread, the OP is nowhere to be found. Lost in the woods with Hansel and Gretel, maybe?
IcyPeas
(24,826 posts)He has ties with Ivanka and Jared. Charles Kushner (felon) donated to his campaigns in the past. Booker was the only Democrat to vote alongside Republicans in favor of President Donald Trump's pick for the role.
I dunno......
Ping Tung
(4,134 posts)SunSeeker
(57,496 posts)Mamdani doesn't need Booker's endorsement. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5439256-nyc-mayoral-race-mamdani-leads/
Booker can't afford to alienate some of his voters, like the voters who read that Journal cited in the OP and oppose Mamdani.
There is nothing "unethical" or not "progressive" about what Booker is doing. We need Booker in the Senate.
Justice Brandeis
(405 posts)Booker is just applying that same standard to him now.
lostincalifornia
(4,897 posts)Booker not endorsing Mamdani, were they also upset when Rashida Tlaib refused to endorse VP Harris?
DFW
(59,723 posts)"the algemeiner" is a misspelling, whether deliberate or otherwise, of a German word meaning "general" with a small "g," as in "in general." The German word is spelled with a double "L," i.e. "Allgemeiner."
One paragraph in the OP's article reads: Mamdani has also repeatedly refused to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, falsely suggesting the country does not offer “equal rights” for all its citizens, and promised to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits New York.
As a Senator from a state with a large Jewish constituency and a substantial Muslim constituency, I can understand why Booker would be reluctant to pin himself down in a race where the front-runner has adopted such a position. Plus, the article says Booker "declined" to endorse Mamdani, not "refused" to endorse him. "Decline" suggests an abstention, where "refuse" suggests an outright no. I find it significant that whoever wrote the article used "decline," where whoever wrote the headline (and those who choose to take it as the main thrust) chose the word "refuse," which the author of the article does not start out with. The article also cites Booker as saying, "I’m sorry, the left-right lens is not the right lens to look at this right now......" I take this to mean he is saying he is not interested in getting involved in a heated dispute in another state right now where he can only lose. I do not take it to mean he refused categorically to endorse Mamdani ever. In politics, those in office often choose their fights carefully. Considering the demographic make-up of New Jersey, I think Booker has studied his options, and chosen his current position based thereupon.
Celerity
(53,608 posts)DFW
(59,723 posts)First off, there is no reason I would have heard of a publication put out by, and serving a community with whom I have no connection. Secondly, as “refuses” would better fit their narrative, they chose to emphasize that, even if it does not reflect what Booker is attempting to say. The “one L” might be a transliteration from Yiddish, though I don’t read the Hebrew alphabet, and wouldn’t know.
CentralMass
(16,854 posts)
MichMan
(16,612 posts)Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)CentralMass
(16,854 posts)
Xavier Breath
(6,459 posts)Celerity
(53,608 posts)in favour of a dying (and now dead, unfortunately) septuagenarian in Connolly for ranking member on Oversight. Almost zero chance they will support her for Speaker anytime soon, if ever. They probably will not even vote for her as Chair of a major House Committee.
Her main best hope is to run for US Senate in either 2028 or 2030. She cannot win a Dem POTUS primary I fear (and is even less likely to win a POTUS general, at least not for ages) and any winning Dem POTUS nominee will be under massive pressure to NOT pick her as their running mate.
IF she does run for US Senate in 2028 or 2030, it is going to be a shitshow both here on DU and in the NY Dem primary. There will perhaps be hundreds of millions spent against her by all the anti-progressive Dem groups, plus AIPAC and all the RW billionaire-backed groups. It will likely make the 2025 NYC general election with Mamdani look like a stroll in the park, as it is the best (and likely last if she wins a US Senate seat) chance to run AOC out of all elective offices at a federal level.
lostincalifornia
(4,897 posts)Were those who are upset about the lack of endorsement from Booker also upset about Tlaib's refusal to endorse VP Harris?
Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)So there's that.
The answer to your specific question, however, is: "NO! They were not."
I find that to be... interesting.
lostincalifornia
(4,897 posts)Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)He's a loyal Democrat who's not afraid to call himself a Democrat without any disclaimers or qualifiers or extra adjectives. That's always a positive thing. We need more party loyalty and it's obviously something that's very important to him.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)He sees ALL of us in NJ.
PunkinPi
(5,243 posts)race of greater consequence. Mamdani said he voted for Harris, he never endorsed her, and was also supportive of the "uncommitted/leave it blank" campaigns (same as Tlaib), which likely in part suppressed the vote for Harris.
And Senator Booker and MVP Harris have been close for a long time, so it would not be a surprise for him not to wade into NYC's mayoral race due to that fact, along with concerns about Mamdani from his own constituents.
And to answer your question, probably not.
lostincalifornia
(4,897 posts)
Emile
(40,528 posts)Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)Emile
(40,528 posts)Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)* to vote third party or some other form of treachery and betrayal. Booker is an honorable and LOYAL Democrat. We need more DEMOCRATS like that who are LOYAL to the party.
But, I'm still curious who in "democratic leadership" do you blame, and for what?
Emile
(40,528 posts)Zohran Mamdani?
Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts) Emile
(40,528 posts)support the democratic nominees. Do you support the democratic nominee?
Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)Good bye.
Emile
(40,528 posts)on the other hand are afraid to answer my question.
I fully support the democratic nominee for mayor, do you?
As has been noted several times in this thread, Sen. Booker has never endorsed a NYC mayoral candidate. Thus, this is not an issue.
People here are using this non-issue as an excuse to bash Democrats. We really never learn, do we?
no_hypocrisy
(54,233 posts)1. Booker isn’t endorsing other candidates (Cuomo, Adams).
2. Booker also hasn’t condemned Mamdani’s candidacy.
Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)* for a third party, or to stay home and "send a message" (or some other treachery). Yet when those things actually happen, the loudest complainers when it comes to Booker's decision, had nothing to say in opposition or criticism when it affected VP Harris. That's weird. And very ... revealing.
DFW
(59,723 posts)Concise and noteworthy.
gab13by13
(31,156 posts)or spoke with Krasnov.
There are Rabbis who are asking the US not to send arms to Israel.
Ursus Rex
(473 posts)I mean, this isn’t a surprise to me, and I understand that people are trying get something going for Booker, but he is who and what he is, which is not the leftish firebrand a lot of people seem to want. I hope that he’s not the nominee for POTUS (like, ever), and it’s interesting that he’s so vividly showing his bona fides like this so early.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)mcar
(45,653 posts)endorsed a NYC mayoral candidate, thanks.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)He was asked "do you support him?" (as a follow up to "I’m wondering if part of the issue with your party, do you think, is not embracing enough of the energy on the left flank of your party?" ), and he could have just said "I support all Democratic candidates in general elections", or "yes". Maybe no interviewer has asked him before if he supports a Democratic candidate - because, in a sane world, the answer would be "of course". As we've seen, one of Booker's supporters here says it's because there's money involved in every election, so Booker has to keep quiet in fear of offending donors. Not that he'd be able to admit that in public, of course.
Just_Vote_Dem
(3,528 posts)I thought he should have just said "I support Democrats".
mcar
(45,653 posts)Thanks.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)Why does it matter - to you, or to anyone?
(no need to wave - I can see you)
mcar
(45,653 posts) muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)Bloomberg in 2009 - see further down the thread.
So, answer my question - why would it matter if he hadn't endorsed before? The question was asked of him this time.
Passive-aggressive use of the "wave" smiley is a bane on DU.
Cha
(316,680 posts)It's too bad it's being used to Bash our Democratic Senator from New Jersey.
mcar
(45,653 posts)for our country and Democratic principles. So let's trash him because of one thing we don't like - as reported by a RW media outlet. 
Cha
(316,680 posts)Mahalo!
mcar
(45,653 posts)So here's the pile on.
I fear nothing is ever good enough for some.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)…that right after my gov is mentioned yet again for some imagined perfidy, Booker’s name will come up and the entire pile-on will happen again. With the same people. Maybe we should save time by sending out invitations to the brawl.
mcar
(45,653 posts)
Hekate
(100,132 posts) MichMan
(16,612 posts)Hekate
(100,132 posts)Mike Nelson
(10,910 posts)... "REFUSES" becomes "declined" becomes something I would have expected Booker to say... The writer lost me with the FOX et al phrase "anti-Israel." Because I protest killing off Palestinians, I'm labeled "anti-Israel." Of course, the reminded readers Mamdani is a socialist. They've successfully redefined socialism as Communalism. They're loving a story that could make these two look bad.
Torchlight
(6,285 posts)Sounds both rational and objective. I can't find the room to pretend either concern or optics on this one.
Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)That's one of your best traits and I like that about you.
Scrivener7
(58,247 posts)Imagine that.
What a disappointment that man is being.
Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts) Scrivener7
(58,247 posts)Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)... right up there with the use of the word "enthusiastically"
misanthrope
(9,362 posts)Mobile, Alabama has mayoral elections this year; Booker hasn’t offered an endorsement.
JBTaurus83
(872 posts)On 2028.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)He says he never endorses for NYC mayor.
Scrivener7
(58,247 posts)every member of the party? Especially if his primary showing was so strong and the views of the Democratic electorate in question (one which has a lot of ideological overlap with Cory's own electorate) have been made clear?
Enough with Democrats being coy. Now is not the time.
Here's how it should go: Reporter- "Do you support the Democratic candidate?" EVERY DAMN DEMOCRAT- "Yes."
yardwork
(68,945 posts)I think it's a mistake for the DNC to allow Cuomo to run.
Given the politics, though, I'm definitely not going to blame Booker. He's a solid Democrat. This circular firing squad based on purity policing is the biggest mistake of all.
Booker is a senator from New Jersey. Leave him alone and stop trying to play purity gotcha.
Scrivener7
(58,247 posts)And when we see our own being coy about Democratic support, now of all times, we need to say we don't support that, if indeed we don't. And I don't.
This is a lot more basic than "purity.:
yardwork
(68,945 posts)Go ahead and write off Corey Booker, a solid progressive Democratic senator that we desperately need right now, because you think he should have used different wording in saying he's staying out of NYC politics.
Mamdani is so far ahead, even if Cuomo or Adams drop out and give all their votes to Sliwa, he'll still win.
This is a non-issue. It's absurd to be attacking Booker for it.
And I see the new catchword is coy. Geez.
Scrivener7
(58,247 posts)Or where I said anyone else should. What I said was that he is being a disappointment.
Speaking of demanding "purity" that's what you're doing. I found his response to be disappointing. I said so. That's allowed.
And by the way, the replies I made to you were perfectly civil. I guess when your standards of purity are breached, we can't expect the same back.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)Can you point to it as a quote, or a timestamp in a recording, please?
yardwork
(68,945 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)After all, you claimed in reply #100 that it "basically" says "I will support my Party's nominee".
"Let New York politics be New York politics" is neither "I will support my Party's nominee", nor "I never endorse for NYC mayor".
Quiet Em
(2,531 posts)NYC is not a proxy battle for the future of the Democratic Party. Booker, a Senator from NJ, should not be expected to make an endorsement in a NYC Mayor race.
I like Zohran Mamdani. I want him to win. Attempts to create divisions in the Party where there should not be any will only harm his chances in the General Election.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)lostincalifornia
(4,897 posts)endorsing someone in a NY Mayoral race.
Quiet Em
(2,531 posts)The con artist and the Republican MAGA party are going to go after Mamdani hard. The out of touch wealthy donors are going to go after Mamdani hard. NYC is unique and it's politics are unique. There is zero benefit in attempting to make Mamdani a litmus test and creating divisions within the party. If that happens, Cuomo will probably benefit from it and I don't want that. But that is exactly what those who are fighting so hard against Mamdani want.
Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)Kid Berwyn
(22,858 posts)It’s about money and power and who gets what.
Socialists, shudder, want to share what’s not theirs.
Like Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes put it in 1927: “Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society.”
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)Being dead to Wall Street?
3 of my neighbors and constituents work on Wall Street. My nephew works for Goldman Sachs. All four are Democratics who hate Trump.
What's the issue here?
Kid Berwyn
(22,858 posts)
And while Wall Street has been doing great for 50 years of Trickle Down, it's been a disaster for Democracy.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)With them?
My nephew is a 31 year old Black Man who is very often the only Black person in the room.
He's being held in a holding pattern because the magapubs made it illegal for Black people to start-up venture capitalists that serve the Black Americans who NEVER get the VC money. Check out the Fearless Fund and how they put their boots on the necks of Black women.
My grandfather and his father and his grandfather thrived in Talladega Alabama and gave their financial assistance ONLY to Black People in Jim Crow. But now -
even taking care of one's own is illegal.
So if you want to go off topic about trickle down - lets take it over to the AFAm Group. The class war is not my issue.
Rising tides NEVER lifted Black Americans' boats and they never will.
There was this thing called the New Raw Deal you see . . .
Kid Berwyn
(22,858 posts)My reply has nothing to do with you or your family. My reply has to do with the national economic policy that serves to make the rich richer and the poor, including what's left of the middle class, poorer.
Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
Sorry never meant to make you think I was blaming you or your family for that.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)I think Black folks have always been left out of the economic equation.
I believe that class war is white on white American crime - with blame being laid on all non-white people by the upper echelons of white Americans.
It's a god damn shame.
LBJ was right. So here we are.
David__77
(24,500 posts)JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)And our Democratic Party Assembly and Senate Candidates need his endorsement more than Mamdani does.
This is a Tri-Fecta year in NJ.
NYC is going to elect Mamdani.
We cannot risk a Shitarelli Admin in NJ. Anything that pulls moderates to votes for our Democratic Candidates needs to be done.
That includes Booker putting his nose in where it doesn't belong.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)Or people who want NJ to lose everything and live like people do in Mississippi. Those folks have literal SEWAGE coming up in their yards.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)We saw it in 2024 and it looked like Russian trolls to me then. And here it is now.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)Black folks can't be manipulated this year. We are too smart for them.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)
democratsruletheday
(1,812 posts)Virtually NO one in the USA that lives outside of NYC gives a shit about this.....asking politely to stop clogging up this board with something as inconsequential as the mayor of NYC....doesn't matter.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)BeyondGeography
(40,803 posts)Good one.
You’ll see how inconsequential it is when Mamdani wins.
This isn’t about the real-life consequences of an NYC mayoral race for people living outside NYC. It’s about how Trump and MAGA world will demonize Mamdani to manipulate people all over the country and how squishy (or not) elected Democrats will be in the face of that.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)The whining and complaining in this thread on behalf of a candidate who is way ahead is a sight to see.
This here is one reason Democrats lose elections.
Mamdani is enormously popular among Democrats and Independents, but for some reason that's not good enough.
betsuni
(28,693 posts)even when the hero is winning and popular and it's an election, it's politics, of course there are PACs and other candidates running against them. Desperate to be victims of nothing real. Republicans are real.
yardwork
(68,945 posts)If one is a fairly affluent citizen of another country, it's easy to sit at one's keyboard and tell people what to do. It's easy to get up on a high horse and cosplay "courage."
Those of us living with the result of divisive purity politics feel differently.
happy feet
(1,258 posts) 
Rob H.
(5,781 posts)yardwork
(68,945 posts)I'm sick and tired of the purity police.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)Fulop and Baraka were great candidates (I supported Baraka in the primary).
At the end of the day - the Moderate Liberal won.
Rob H.
(5,781 posts)Booker will endorse Mamdani, a Muslim candidate, when AIPAC has given him 870,000+ reasons not to. If he were to do that, next election they’d bury Booker’s opponent under a mountain of campaign funds. Like it or not, AIPAC has a history of doing that to any candidate who crosses them or comes out against Israel’s actions in Gaza.
LexVegas
(6,951 posts)JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)It's also showing a monumental lack of consideration for the residents of New Jersey.
We just don't matter at ALL to some folks.
NYC - should be alllllllllllll we care about. Uh - nope.
I live 45 miles away from there. IDGAF.
lostincalifornia
(4,897 posts)Political Action Committee. Some Only seem obsessed with an American PAC supported by many AMERICAN Jews, but also other Americans for maintaining good US-Israel relations.
It isn’t not run by Israel or any other foreign entity, which is misrepresented and lied about by its detractors. It is an American PAC, whose members are Americans.
but a nice excuse to blame instead of directly calling out what they really mean.
Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)Ub-it's nub-o lubonguber uba cubode whuben mubost pubeopuble ubeasubily ubunduberstuband whubat ubis mubent.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)They just don't want any Jewish people to have agency.
Its ALL over threads right now.
Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)For the targets in real life.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)The pot-stirrers aren’t even subtle at this point.
lostincalifornia
(4,897 posts)JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)As a person has given over $4K over the years to his campaigns.
BTW - Not a member of aipac.
Let's correct this:
He's not going to do ANYTHING to piss off independent moderates in NJ - and potentially harming Sherrill, Freiman, and Drulis campaigns this year.
Can I ask a sincere question -
Do you honestly believe that if Booker is an aipac shill - it would be to Mamdani's benefit?
Rob H.
(5,781 posts)JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)I hope he runs for President again.
Rob H.
(5,781 posts)Last edited Fri Aug 22, 2025, 01:57 PM - Edit history (1)
is doing in Israel. If you want to potentially commit electoral suicide by nominating someone who’s okay with posing for publicity photos with him, go off, I guess. Just don’t expect the rest of us to come along for the ride.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)Cough up.
Rob H.
(5,781 posts)that showed that only 8% of Democrats support Israel's military actions in Gaza and only 9% approve of Netanyahu himself. If you want to see the group photo Booker and others were in with Netanyahu, try Google. It was taken, and even posted about here, on July 11.
Next time, do your own homework.
JustAnotherGen
(37,526 posts)If you want Mamdani to lose, you will demand an endorsement from someone in a picture with Israel's Trump.
You have to understand - there are folks in America that do not have the Hamas Israel war in their top ten issues.
You have to accept that. You don't have to LIKE it - but acceptance is key.
Black folks see things for what they are. There are people in America that will use us, but then once they get what THEY want - throw us away. Tell us to wait. Say things are impossible.
We will.protect Booker. So will the ancestors.
Cha
(316,680 posts)he endorse Mamdani?
BannonsLiver
(20,236 posts)And I know I can’t possibly be alone in that. I don’t GAF who wins I just want it to be over.
Mad_Machine76
(24,933 posts) yardwork
(68,945 posts)GiqueCee
(3,390 posts)... Mamdani is NOT anti-Israel, but he IS anti-Netanyahu, as any decent human being should be, and the two are NOT synonymous, though a great many zealots – especially Bibi – would have you believe they are. What he has done to Gaza is a war crime, period.
demmiblue
(39,202 posts)the ignore function is a wonderful thing! 
yardwork
(68,945 posts)If not I take great offense!!!
Hekate
(100,132 posts)yardwork
(68,945 posts)This thread is a sight to see. Quite a ruckus on behalf of a candidate who is way ahead and doesn't need (or probably even want) an endorsement from an out of state senator.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)
Hekate
(100,132 posts)What is their particular slant?
yardwork
(68,945 posts)Brenda
(1,930 posts)Also seems like certain people at DU only post flame bait and never contribute other than the lit fuse.
I mean - look at the source for this thread: the algemeiner. Who or what is that and why should I care about their attempt to rile up Dems about a non-issue?
Distraction from the Epstein files once again.
Emile
(40,528 posts)Brenda
(1,930 posts)so no, I have no idea who reads it. Do you?
I didn't see an "About" page which usually explains what the website is about.
Just_Vote_Dem
(3,528 posts)who got it from the Daily Voice, Somerset County, NJ
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sen-booker-declines-to-endorse-mamdani-for-mayor-let-ny-politics-be-ny-politics/ar-AA1K1GTU
Brenda
(1,930 posts)electric_blue68
(25,781 posts)BlueTsunami2018
(4,842 posts)I wonder why he won’t do it now….hmmm.
Actually I don’t wonder.
This entire party needs to be overhauled. Get off the ruling class money tit and get back to work for the People.
SocialDemocrat61
(6,767 posts)And who did he endorse?
Emile
(40,528 posts)at the time.
Quiet Em
(2,531 posts)The 2009 Bloomberg endorsement was made when Cory Booker was the Mayor of Newark.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)...
Still, there is no question that Mr. Adams has quickly made a national splash.
Mayor Nan Whaley of Dayton, Ohio, the president of the United States Conference of Mayors, has been texting with Mr. Adams and intends to speak with him soon, she said. She plans to invite him to the Conference’s annual meeting, slated for Austin toward the end of the summer.
Mr. Adams is also navigating critical relationships closer to home. He met with Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, over the weekend. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, among others, has also reached out.
https://archive.ph/gCCgf
I'd have thought the fact that Bloomberg was running as a combined "Republican" and Independent, against a Democrat, is the more notable fact about the endorsement.
Quiet Em
(2,531 posts)Booker and Bloomberg formed a friendship as Mayors of Newark and NYC on their common ground on gun control.
SocialDemocrat61
(6,767 posts)The only democratic senator who endorsed Adams was Schumer. And can’t find anything about him endorsing anyone in 09 or any other NYC Mayors race. If I’m wrong and you have links to confirm he made previous endorsements, please provide them.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,545 posts)Booker "reached out" to Adams in 2021 - see above.
SocialDemocrat61
(6,767 posts)Just_Vote_Dem
(3,528 posts)Please correct me if I'm wrong
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/booker-backs-bloomberg/1892557/
SocialDemocrat61
(6,767 posts)But Booker was Newark Mayor back then and Newark elections are nonpartisan. So Booker was an independent Mayor who endorsed another independent Mayor. Has he endorsed anyone since he was elected to the senate as a democrat?
Just_Vote_Dem
(3,528 posts)I just wanted to see if I could find an answer to your question, heh
SocialDemocrat61
(6,767 posts)😀
Just_Vote_Dem
(3,528 posts) LilElf70
(1,375 posts)this is yet another reason he has only gone so far in politics.
electric_blue68
(25,781 posts)Last edited Fri Aug 8, 2025, 05:53 PM - Edit history (1)
I'm reposting this quote about this paper since I posted it in a way smaller sub-pist section.
(my underline)
"Orthodox Jews, however, stand out as a small subgroup (roughly one-in-ten Jewish adults) whose political profile is virtually the reverse of Jews as a whole: 60% of Orthodox Jews describe their political views as conservative, 75% identify as Republicans or lean toward the GOP, and 81% approved of Trump’s job performance at the time of the survey."
Hope this helps 👍
Cha
(316,680 posts)Run by a Pedo Rapist, Racist, Felon, Traitor and Psychopathic Liar..
No Excuses for hat.
TY
electric_blue68
(25,781 posts)Hekate
(100,132 posts)True Dough
(25,808 posts)Yours prompted me to speak up. I have noticed a pattern of divisive posts by certain individuals. Threads started that highlight division within the party. Of course, I'm not naively suggesting that everyone should just get along, but a few individuals on the Du seem to relish exploiting even minor differences of opinion.
Anyway, I'll go back to observing now, but I have, once again, made a mental note of where this all started.
FakeNoose
(40,120 posts)Whenever I see a post such as this one, where certain people keep harping the same points and won't let it go, I have a solution.... I put those DUers on my "ignore" list. It seems to take care of the problem, for me anyway.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)betsuni
(28,693 posts)madly wagging its tail and drooling, LOOK LOOK LOOK LOOK LOOK I HAVE FOUND A BONE THIS IS FANTASTIC DID YOU SEE MY BONE! and all the dogs start barking.
True Dough
(25,808 posts)is a superb analogy, betsuni.
betsuni
(28,693 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(4,176 posts)and the inevitable demand for "purity" while successfully dividing Dems, what's your opinion?
Hekate
(100,132 posts)betsuni
(28,693 posts)myohmy2
(3,704 posts)...times like these that tests the mettle of a person...
...IMO, Cory failed that test...
...this will be remembered...
...
bdamomma
(69,155 posts)disappointed in Senator Booker, is he part of the status quo????
After reading most of these comments about Senator Booker, I guess his focusing on his own campaign and state he would be better off.
All the best to Mr. Mamdani. I'm all in for some new ideas and people in our party.
betsuni
(28,693 posts)the flimsiest negative stories and conspiracy theories instantly believed without proof, insult with weaponized Us vs Them words like establishment, centrist, status quo that don't mean anything.
lapucelle
(20,943 posts)that was later framed as a "NYC Jewish newspaper".
themaguffin
(4,898 posts)
Initech
(107,370 posts)Quit letting Rupert Murdoch control the narrative. They will steal this election if you let them! 
The Bopper
(277 posts)My Who gives a F file. Thinking like this gave us Trump. Purity tests are a fantasy and complaining gets us no where. The people who are voting one way or the other aren’t going to be swayed.