Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner claimed that Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker had dropped out of the presidential race, but later corrected her mistake during her show Monday afternoon.
She was talking to fellow network host Bret Baier about the impeachment hearings when the conversation shifted to how the senators running for president will have to balance a Senate trial with time on the campaign trail.
Faulkner quipped, “Fewer of them now, as Cory Booker has dropped out,” before correcting the mistake during a later segment on the show.
“I want to make a correction,” she commented. “I made a mistake. In the last segment, I mistakenly said the name of senator Cory Booker, and that he had dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination. He is, of course, still in the contest along with five other senators making a White House bid, which was part of the conversation about the Republican strategy, if you will, to make this go on a little bit longer and sideline some of those potential late-stayers as candidates. So, I apologize for the error.”
The RealClearPolitics average poll of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates has Booker coming in with 2%.
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