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(52,471 posts) Mon May 25, 2026, 01:10 PM Monday

Cory Booker says Democrats are 'desperate' for fresh leaders. And suggests three [View all]

Booker pointed to three Democrats who he thinks represent the future of the party –– Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia, Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico and Roy Cooper, the former governor of North Carolina and current Senate candidate.

"People are suffering, people are hurting, and they're going to support the leaders," Booker said. "And I'm seeing this in Talarico, in Ossoff, in Cooper in North Carolina, that those leaders are stepping up and saying, 'I don't give a damn about parties. I care about people.' You cannot lead the people if they don't trust you, and that's what's lacking right now with the party apparatus."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/cory-booker-says-democrats-desperate-183928540.html

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Cory Booker says Democrats are 'desperate' for fresh leaders. And suggests three [View all] question everything Monday OP

and another attack on the party .... stopdiggin Monday #1

He's right. But if you want to lok at the truth as an attack, well OK. 3_Limes Monday #3

"willing to continue in the minority, and to watch the country be plundered and degraded as you are" Martin Eden Monday #7

Noted. You are correct. That should not have neen nearly so personal. 3_Limes Monday #13

Thanks, that means a lot Martin Eden Monday #14

how about DU rules ? stopdiggin Monday #10

Not an attack and honest assessment as far as I can read. Pisces Monday #2

The (D) president 2029-2033 should be a one-term bulldozer and wrecking ball bucolic_frolic Monday #4

A Wrecking Ball that will start with all the garish statues and monuments and name changes question everything Monday #6

Absolutely! bucolic_frolic Monday #9

Roy Cooper might be the right person for the Senate in this election Martin Eden Monday #5

I wouldn't mind some kind of Chautaqua and debate system gulliver Monday #8

Nothing is stopping you Buzz cook Monday #11

It's on my list gulliver Monday #12

Fresh, old Katcat Monday #15

Exactly Mad_Machine76 Monday #16

My take - Booker is telling people what to think. yellow dahlia Monday #17