Sen. Cory Booker is headed to New Hampshire next month to headline a major state Democratic Party fundraising dinner.
The New Hampshire Democratic Party announced Thursday that the senator from New Jersey who unsuccessfully ran for his party’s 2020 Presidential nomination will headline the Dec. 11 McIntyre-Shaheen and Eleanor Roosevelt Winter Extravaganza. The gala will help boost the state party’s coffers ahead of the 2022 midterms, when Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan and Reps. Annie Kuster and Chris Pappas will be running for reelection in the crucial general election battleground state.
While the announcement raised eyebrows regarding any future Booker White House run, Democratic strategists close to Booker’s orbit made it crystal clear that the senator’s return to the state that holds the first primary in the White House race is all about next year’s midterm elections and not about the 2024 Presidential election.
