WSJ Reporter: Booker Was Never the Top Choice for Anyone

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PARTI: "That's right. For months, Cory Booker had been seen as this sort of candidate who could pull off a surprise on caucus night. He started organizing early, he had racked up endorsements. But that was just not materializing and polls don’t reflect everything, but they weren’t even giving an indication of whether or not that could happen for him. He was in the latest poll polling below Andrew Yang. So a lot of campaigns are going to be making the case to his organizers, to those top endorsers to try to get them on their side. As Jeff was pointing out, the second choice really matters in Iowa, and when I talked to voters in the state, they always brought up his name kind of below, the second or the third choice. He was never the top choice for anyone. It will be interesting to see where those people who were sort of considering him kind of end up in all of this."