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DemocraticOfficial sources

Cory Booker

U.S. Senator · NJ · New Jersey senator; Judiciary and democracy-focused Democrat

US politics influence
30/ 100
Numbers First

Fast statistical read before interpretation

Raised
$22M
Aggregate modeled elections
Coverage
26%
Negative share of tracked coverage
Top outlet
21%
NYT
Net worth
$2.6M
Latest midpoint
Top topic
17%
Criminal justice
Social reach
3.2M
X leads · 1.8M
X1.8M · 57%
Instagram1.1M · 36%
YouTube219K · 7%
Overall political influence
Combined first-read signal for voter and statistical comparison.
30/100
Funding Mix

Aggregate modeled elections · as of 2026-06-04

Raised
$22M
Spent
$20M
Cash
$1.4M
Small individual donors34%
Large individual donors42%
PAC / committee support16%
Other8%

Summary totals aggregate the modeled election tabs below. Static public-source snapshot; replace with exact FEC/state filing exports during ingestion.

Named PACs and committees
Cory Booker for Senate
Candidate committee · Associated
FEC committee snapshot: Cory Booker for Senate
$22M
Purpose PAC
Leadership PAC · Associated
FEC committee snapshot: Purpose PAC
$3.1M
Large individual donors

Aggregate large-donor view combines curated public itemized records from modeled election tabs; missing names remain explicitly noted rather than inferred.

Coverage Share

2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04 · top outlet: NYT

Tracked against the fixed MVP outlet set; replace with live GDELT query dates during ingestion.

What Coverage Is About

GDELT-style topic associations

Criminal justice17%
204 tracked mentions
Judicial nominations15%
180 tracked mentions
Voting rights14%
168 tracked mentions
Nutrition / agriculture12%
144 tracked mentions
Israel / Gaza10%
120 tracked mentions
Public Conversation Signals

Search demand and network coverage framing

These are public-source and method-based signals about what people search and what major coverage clusters emphasize; they are not Perception endorsements or quality claims.

What people search most
Criminal justice
2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04
71
Cory BookerCory Booker Criminal justiceCory Booker latest

Static public-interest snapshot ranking common searches around Cory Booker; replace with audited Google Trends, news-search, or social-listening exports when connected.

Judges
2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04
53
Cory BookerCory Booker JudgesCory Booker Judges news

Static public-interest snapshot ranking common searches around Cory Booker; replace with audited Google Trends, news-search, or social-listening exports when connected.

net worth
2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04
53
Cory BookerCory Booker net worthCory Booker net worth news

Static public-interest snapshot ranking common searches around Cory Booker; replace with audited Google Trends, news-search, or social-listening exports when connected.

donors
2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04
24
Cory BookerCory Booker donorsCory Booker donors news

Static public-interest snapshot ranking common searches around Cory Booker; replace with audited Google Trends, news-search, or social-listening exports when connected.

polls
2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04
43
Cory BookerCory Booker pollsCory Booker polls news

Static public-interest snapshot ranking common searches around Cory Booker; replace with audited Google Trends, news-search, or social-listening exports when connected.

Network coverage framing
NYTCriminal justiceMixed

NYT coverage is modeled as focusing on criminal justice for Cory Booker, with the outlet share snapshot placing it at 21% of the tracked network/news mix.

2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04GDELT
CNNJudgesMixed

CNN coverage is modeled as focusing on judges for Cory Booker, with the outlet share snapshot placing it at 17% of the tracked network/news mix.

2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04GDELT
APVoting rightsMixed

AP coverage is modeled as focusing on voting rights for Cory Booker, with the outlet share snapshot placing it at 17% of the tracked network/news mix.

2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04GDELT
Reutersfundraising networkNeutral

Reuters coverage is modeled as focusing on fundraising network for Cory Booker, with the outlet share snapshot placing it at 13% of the tracked network/news mix.

2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04GDELT
NPRelectoral stakesMixed

NPR coverage is modeled as focusing on electoral stakes for Cory Booker, with the outlet share snapshot placing it at 11% of the tracked network/news mix.

2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04GDELT
Estimated Net Worth Over Time

Disclosure ranges, not exact bank balances

Latest midpoint
$2.6M
Change since 2016
$1.7M
Method

Estimated from Senate disclosures, book income, retirement assets, and midpoint-style ranges.

Spectrum Estimate

Left-right model, not a value judgment

LeftCenterRight
Liberal Democrat / reform-oriented. Estimated from Judiciary work, civil-rights agenda, voting-rights positions, and Democratic primary record.
US Politics Influence

Following, wealth, positions, media, money, and electoral power

Positions held
24

Formal office, party leadership, committee leverage, and current agenda-setting power.

Media attention
17

Share and intensity in the tracked national news and network coverage set.

Electoral power
14

Relevance to presidential, statewide, nationally watched, or party-defining elections.

Public following
51

Public-platform reach across modeled official, campaign, and public social accounts.

Fundraising network
53

Aggregate modeled campaign receipts, PAC/committee support, and donor infrastructure.

Wealth
32

Estimated disclosure-range midpoint and public wealth context, not exact bank balance.

Source-backed summary

New Jersey senator and former presidential candidate with visibility on criminal justice, judiciary fights, voting rights, nutrition, and Democratic coalition politics.

Top tracked issues
Criminal justiceJudgesVoting rightsNutrition
U.S. senator from New Jersey
Former Newark mayor
Former presidential candidate
What This Person Is Really About

Source-backed synthesis, not Perception endorsement

Political identity

Cory Booker is best read as a democratic power figure whose profile centers on criminal justice and judges.

Power lever

Their practical influence comes through committee leverage and Senate votes, fundraising networks, media attention, and coalition relationships tracked in this profile.

Public perception

Public attention clusters around NYT and CNN coverage plus issue associations in the tracked news set.

Influencer narrative

MVP influencer monitoring treats criminal justice as the dominant narrative to verify against podcasts, YouTube, X, newsletters, and cable clips.

Trend spike watch

Trend fields are MVP snapshots: use the listed query terms and date ranges as the future ingestion contract for Google Trends, X, Instagram, and vendor social-listening data.

Why this matters long term

This profile is structured as durable civic data: every claim should either cite a source, name a method, or be easy to replace with a live ingestion result.

Key Stances

Source-backed issue stance summaries

Criminal justice
Official sources

Criminal justice is tracked as a standard comparison issue. For this MVP, the stance summary is inferred from party alignment, office record, campaign material, and cited public sources, then should be replaced by issue-specific vote/platform ingestion.

Reviewed 2026-06-04
Judges
Official sources

Judges is tracked as a standard comparison issue. For this MVP, the stance summary is inferred from party alignment, office record, campaign material, and cited public sources, then should be replaced by issue-specific vote/platform ingestion.

Reviewed 2026-06-04
Voting rights
Official sources

Voting rights is tracked as a standard comparison issue. For this MVP, the stance summary is inferred from party alignment, office record, campaign material, and cited public sources, then should be replaced by issue-specific vote/platform ingestion.

Reviewed 2026-06-04
Nutrition
Official sources

Nutrition is tracked as a standard comparison issue. For this MVP, the stance summary is inferred from party alignment, office record, campaign material, and cited public sources, then should be replaced by issue-specific vote/platform ingestion.

Reviewed 2026-06-04
Economy
Official sources

Economy is tracked as a standard comparison issue. For this MVP, the stance summary is inferred from party alignment, office record, campaign material, and cited public sources, then should be replaced by issue-specific vote/platform ingestion.

Reviewed 2026-06-04
Immigration
Official sources

Immigration is tracked as a standard comparison issue. For this MVP, the stance summary is inferred from party alignment, office record, campaign material, and cited public sources, then should be replaced by issue-specific vote/platform ingestion.

Reviewed 2026-06-04
Background

Education, home state, and public family bio

From
New Jersey
Highest education
Juris Doctor
Marriages
Not publicly listed
Children
Not publicly listed
Schools
Stanford UniversityUniversity of OxfordYale Law School

Public biographical snapshot; family counts and residence can change and should be refreshed from official bios/public disclosures.

Controversy Meter

2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04

Critical coverage intensity
42
Moderate
Negative share
26%
Tracked articles
1,086

MVP estimate based on critical/negative tone, 0% legal/conflict topic association, 0% personal/family association, and concentrated conflict coverage in the tracked outlet set.

Political Allies

Coalition and governing network

Institutional Memory

Historical records for long-term study

Policy milestone
2002-2013
Newark mayor

Served as mayor of Newark, New Jersey.

Office
2013-
U.S. senator

Represents New Jersey in the Senate.

Election
2020
Presidential candidate

Ran in the Democratic presidential primary.

Policy milestone
2020s
Judiciary and democracy voice

Works on nominations, criminal justice, nutrition, and voting-rights issues.

Policy milestone
2026-06-04
Perception source snapshot

Structured snapshot tying office history, money, media topics, issue stances, and trend placeholders into one reusable civic-data record.

Resume Timeline

Quick scan

2002-2013
Newark mayor

Served as mayor of Newark, New Jersey.

2013-
U.S. senator

Represents New Jersey in the Senate.

2020
Presidential candidate

Ran in the Democratic presidential primary.

2020s
Judiciary and democracy voice

Works on nominations, criminal justice, nutrition, and voting-rights issues.

Most Similar

Coalition and career resemblance

Receipts

Every profile starts with public sources

MVP note: controversy, funding, net worth, and coverage values are seeded estimates structured for future FEC, GDELT, disclosure, and Congress.gov ingestion.