Iowa
Related: About this forumSen. Cory Booker fires up Iowa Democrats: 'It is a time to get up, to rise up, to speak up'
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker repeatedly brought more than 1,100 Iowa Democrats to their feet Saturday night with a rousing call to get their party and country back on track.
The New Jersey Democrat, a possible 2020 presidential candidate, used a preachers cadence to fire up activists at a Des Moines fundraiser for the state party.
"Stay faithful. Stay faithful. Stay faithful," he said, quoting a mantra he learned from a mentor in a subsidized housing complex in Newark.
He recalled becoming discouraged by Republican Donald Trumps 2016 election as president. But he said he regained his spirit upon seeing hundreds of thousands of women march in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the days after Trumps inauguration.
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MontanaMama
(24,125 posts)Thanks for posting this link. So uplifting.
TexasTowelie
(117,977 posts)We need some positive stories like this right now.
MontanaMama
(24,125 posts)And, there really are so many smart, articulate, insipiring Dems. Our cup runneth wth over if you think about it.