Cory A. Booker

American politician (born 1969)

IncumbentU.S. Senate — NJDemocraticRunning nowVugol ID VM-RK9-QXM5 FEC S4NJ00185

Running for U.S. Senate, NJ, 2026

Link: vugol.me/p/cory-a-booker

Roster source: FEC filing (2026-08-26)

Headshot · unitedstates.github.io

Cory A. Booker — Photo — Photo · U.S. Embassy Ghana · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Cory A. Booker — Illustration · Vugol.me — Illustration · Vugol.me
Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from Official U.S. Congress portrait · Public domain

Races

2026 · U.S. Senate, NJ · General · Democratic · on the ballot · incumbent
2020 · U.S. Senate, NJ · General · Democratic · won · 2,541,239 votes (57.2%) · incumbent · source

Background

Cory Anthony Booker is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Booker is the first African-American U.S. senator from New Jersey.

He was the 38th mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013, and served on the Municipal Council of Newark for the Central Ward from 1998 to 2002.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-26 · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker

In the news

Jack Smith defends Trump probes in Senate hearing filled with GOP insultsNBC News · Sep 29
Senate laterals college sports bill to House, but forward progress uncertainRoll Call · Sep 28
Senate approves sweeping bill to regulate college sportsCBS News · Sep 29

Headlines from outlets across the political spectrum, linked to the publisher. Vugol.me doesn’t write or endorse them. How we choose them · News about this race

Campaign finance

$33,504,255total raised (2026 cycle)

$16,330,421total spent (2026 cycle)

$23,060,940cash on hand (2026 cycle)

As of 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC

Website and social

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Sources

Official portrait — public-domain congressional image set (unitedstates project)
Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-26 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker
Website and social links — Wikidata (CC0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1135767
Official social accounts — congress-legislators dataset (unitedstates project)
Roster — FEC filing — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S4NJ00185/
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CoryBookerInGhana_2024.jpg
photo_headshot — https://unitedstates.github.io/
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CoryBookerInGhana_2024_(cropped).jpg
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cory_Booker.jpg
photo_gallery — https://www.booker.senate.gov/about
photo_gallery — https://www.booker.senate.gov/about
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cory_Booker_Senate.jpg

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