Cory Booker’s Wall Street ties may undermine support from Democrats’ left wing

Published February 1, 2019 7:05pm ET



When Cory Booker jumped into the 2020 presidential race on Friday, he promised to build his campaign the “right way,” without money from corporate political action committees and federal lobbyists.

The millions of dollars in donations he accepted from Wall Street in the past, however, and his defense of Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital in 2012 may still come back to haunt him.

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