A day after he suspended his presidential campaign, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said he is open taking a spot on the 2020 Democratic ticket as vice president but he demurred on endorsing anyone.
“I have had no conversations. I was so pleased that I got to go through the experience and be vetted ... as one of Hillary Clinton’s final choices,” he said. “My focus is really on Jersey, and my state ... and being with my senior senator, Bob Menendez [D-N.J.] ... the best dynamic duo” in the Senate, Booker said.
The junior senator from New Jersey also called on the Democrats still in the race to “keep it to the issues” following a report from CNN that claimed 2020 hopefuls Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) had a disagreement, where Sanders disagreed with the idea that Americans are ready for a female president.
On Monday, Booker, who was also the former mayor of Newark, ended his campaign and noted he no longer has enough resources to keep going.
“It’s with a full heart that I share this news—I’ve made the decision to suspend my campaign for president,” he added in the press release. “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.”
In recent months and weeks, Booker said his campaign had struggled with soliciting donations.