Cory Booker Pushes Democrats to Get Extremely Online

Cory Booker Pushes Democrats to Get Extremely Online

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) “is on an active mission to tone the party’s weak media muscles, an atrophy that many now believe cost Democrats in 2024,” Semafor reports. “It’s part of Booker’s new role in the caucus: modernizing a party that he believes relies too much on traditional print and TV outlets to get its message out.”

How Cory Booker convinced his party to get extremely online

The NewsWhen Chris Coons stepped into his party’s meeting room after listening to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress in March, Cory Booker had a surprise waiting: a room of social media influencers ready to interview him.“I’m looking at him. And he goes, ‘I know you’ve never met these people. I know you’ve never heard of what they’re on,’” Coons recalled to Semafor.Booker listed the follower counts of social media personalities i…