Cory Booker

We need to stay together and unified.

But come November, there's going to be a debate and discussion about how we lead after November.

And I think that's going to be a very important one.

I think he's going to have to make his case before the caucus and we'll see who will challenge him.

But that's going to be a very important election.

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.