Presidential hopeful and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., will seek out a female running mate if he secures the nomination for the Democratic Party in 2020.
“We have such a great field of leaders, I think that you’ll rarely see a Democratic ticket anymore without gender diversity, race diversity,” Booker said during an interview Tuesday on MSNBC. “I think it’s something we should have. I’m not going to box myself in, but should I become [the presidential nominee], you know I’ll be looking to women first.”
Booker is in the 2020 race with several Democratic women, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, and Kamala Harris of California.
“We have great people running,” Booker said. “This is actually an abundance of riches for the Democratic Party. I hope that whoever wins, we all support. It’s really important to me that we have full support of whoever that nominee is.”
Booker announced on Feb. 1 that he would run in 2020. Before he was elected to the Senate, he served as mayor of Newark, N.J.
