Cory Booker Runs Out of Time
Despite enthusiastic crowds and an impressive pile of endorsements, his campaign couldn’t break through.
MOUNT VERNON, Iowa—Cory Booker had an original Jimmy Carter campaign button in his pocket. A woman at his previous event had handed it to him, and he was holding on to it as a final talisman of hope. It was Thursday, his second day trip to Iowa in three days. His flight out of Eastern Iowa Airport was in an hour. He hadn’t slept in the same bed for more than a night in two weeks. He sat in the front seat of an SUV, rubbing his fingers up and down his nose.
“The question is,” Booker said to me, “will we have the time in Iowa to close?”
He told me that he thought if he could qualify for tomorrow night’s debate in Des Moines, he could win the Iowa
