{"id":21830,"date":"2013-06-10T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21830"},"modified":"2013-06-10T15:58:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:58:31","slug":"cory-booker-formally-enters-nj-senate-race-endorsed-by-bill-bradley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21830","title":{"rendered":"Cory Booker Formally Enters NJ Senate Race, Endorsed By Bill Bradley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRENTON, NJ\u00a0 \u2014 Newark <strong>Mayor Cory Booker<\/strong> on Saturday formally announced he\u2019s in the race to finish the U.S. Senate term of the late <strong>Frank Lautenberg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old Democrat made his candidacy official at a news conference Saturday in Newark, New Jersey\u2019s largest city. He was joined by former U.S. <strong>Sen. Bill Bradley<\/strong>, a former pro basketball player who for 18 years held the seat<strong> Booker<\/strong> is seeking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bradley<\/strong>, who endorsed <strong>Booker<\/strong>, called him \u201cthe right person for the right office at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booker<\/strong> began raising money for a Senate run even before<strong> Lautenberg<\/strong>, who died Monday, announced retirement plans in February. He had raised $1.9 million by the end of the last reporting period in March.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reps.<\/strong> <strong>Frank Pallone<\/strong> and <strong>Rush Holt<\/strong> are also planning to enter the Democratic primary. <strong>Booker<\/strong> is considered the early front-runner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRENTON, NJ\u00a0 \u2014 Newark Mayor Cory Booker on Saturday formally announced he\u2019s in the race to finish the U.S. Senate term of the late Frank Lautenberg. The 44-year-old Democrat made his candidacy official at a news conference Saturday in Newark, New Jersey\u2019s largest city. He was joined by former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, a former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}