Cory Booker

Well, I'm focused on re-election, but I'm telling people without any kind of restraint that I think this 2028 election is going to be the moment where we need to redeem the dream of

And I'm going to be involved in some way in the national conversation because I'm angry.

I'm angry at my party.

I'm angry at how much we've missed the moment.

and how we need to change the national conversation from narrow divides and debates to the big issues that are facing America and give what I think my grandfather found in FDR when most blacks were Republicans.

And why did he switch?

Not because he liked our party, but because he felt like it was a redemption moment where the dream of America was redeemed with this new deal that was promised.

So no matter what happens in 28, I'm going to be fierce.

And if it means

not being a presidential candidate, but one of those people that like, if you want my endorsement, you better be standing up and giving a vision for this country that is specific and makes people believe again that we can be a party that actually delivers for people.

Leadership.

It really is.

You can't have great courage without great fear.

And so I have fear that we are missing a leadership moment.

But I see my courage being given strength by new leaders emerging around this country.

There are extraordinary new senators from Alsa Brooks and Lita Blunt Rochester to Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff.

I mean, I should say Andy Kim is one of the guys that gives me strength every day from New Jersey.

There are new candidates out there I see around the country like Tallarico down in Texas.

There is a new generation of leaders that I think have the promise to meet this moment.

And then on local levels, I've just been running around my state talking to my county leaders.