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TexasTowelie

(116,925 posts)
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 08:26 PM Oct 2018

Sen. Cory Booker fires up Iowa Democrats: 'It is a time to get up, to rise up, to speak up'

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker repeatedly brought more than 1,100 Iowa Democrats to their feet Saturday night with a rousing call to get their party and country back on track.

The New Jersey Democrat, a possible 2020 presidential candidate, used a preacher’s cadence to fire up activists at a Des Moines fundraiser for the state party.

"Stay faithful. Stay faithful. Stay faithful," he said, quoting a mantra he learned from a mentor in a subsidized housing complex in Newark.

He recalled becoming discouraged by Republican Donald Trump’s 2016 election as president. But he said he regained his spirit upon seeing hundreds of thousands of women march in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the days after Trump’s inauguration.

Read more: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/07/iowa-sen-cory-booker-democrats-speech-2016-election-donald-trump-iowa-caucuses-president/1552663002/

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Sen. Cory Booker fires up Iowa Democrats: 'It is a time to get up, to rise up, to speak up' (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2018 OP
Senator Booker in the house! MontanaMama Oct 2018 #1
You're welcome. TexasTowelie Oct 2018 #2
Yes we do. MontanaMama Oct 2018 #3

MontanaMama

(24,038 posts)
3. Yes we do.
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 10:09 PM
Oct 2018

And, there really are so many smart, articulate, insipiring Dems. Our cup runneth wth over if you think about it.

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