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Booker To Launch Campaign Tour From City Where He Was Mayor
Democratic presidential hopeful Cory Booker will launch a national campaign tour Saturday with a major rally in the New Jersey city where he served as mayor, as he looks to break out of a crowded 2020 field of more than a dozen viable candi- dates.
The senator from New Jersey has made visiting early voting states a priority during his 10 weeks in the presidential race, but so far he remains in the middle of
Senator Cory Booker says Nipsey Hussle's death should remind of us of the countless Black victims of gun violence across the country.
the pack with poll numbers in the single digits. Still, his campaign is projecting con- fidence that he doesn’t have to surge early to succeed with a strategy that’s built more on grassroots enthusi- asm than national buzz.
“We’re trying to win the election—we’re not trying to win a news cycle,” cam- paign manager Addisu Demissie told reporters this week, describing his ap- proach as “organize and get hot at the end.”
Of course, Booker and his advisers know that building a higher profile re- quires some bigger swings for attention that spotlight his talent for soaring ora- tory. Saturday’s rally before a friendly crowd in Newark gives the campaign a chance “to keep Cory front and center with the voters, which is how you break out here,” as Demissie put it. “You need to be visible.”
Booker’s campaign of- fered few details about
what he will say at his rally beyond describing it as an opportunity to outline his case to be the Democratic nominee to take on Presi- dent Donald Trump. Demissie described it as a “framing moment,” adding that the former mayor will be “diving deeper into some of the themes” from his speech during the two- week national tour that it kickstarts. His first stops are in Iowa, Georgia, and Nevada.
Omar Says More Death Threats Coming Since Trump Pushed Video
New York Congressmen Ask
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Ilhan Omar says she’s faced increased death threats since President Donald Trump spread around a video that purports to show her being dismissive of the 2001 terrorist attacks. “This is endangering lives,” she said, accusing Trump of fomenting right-wing ex- tremism. “It has to stop.”
Her statement late Sunday followed an announcement by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that she has taken steps to ensure the safety of the Minnesota Democrat and the speaker’s call for Trump to take down the video.
Soon after Pelosi’s state- ment, the video disappeared as a pinned tweet at the top of Trump’s Twitter feed, but it was not deleted.
Sunday, saying the president has a duty to highlight Omar’s history of making comments that others deem anti-Semitic or otherwise of- fensive and that he wished no “ill will” upon the first-term lawmaker.
But Omar said that since Trump retweeted the video Friday night, she’s received many threats on her life that referred or replied to the posted video.
“Violent crimes and other acts of hate by right-wing ex- tremists and white national- ists are on the rise in this country and around the world,” she said. “We can no longer ignore that they are being encouraged by the oc- cupant of the highest office in the land.” She said: “We are all Americans.”
Deaths Of Couple Who Died
REP. ILHAM OMAR Pelosi was among De-
mocrats who had criticized Trump over the tweet , with some accusing him of trying to incite violence against the Muslim lawmaker. An up- state New York man recently was charged with making death threats against her.
White House press secre- tary Sarah Sanders de- fended Trump earlier
Lawmakers in New York are urging the FBI to investi- gate the mysterious deaths of a Mount Vernon couple who died on their way to an airport in the Dominican Republic.
Dominican Republic au- thorities said Orlando Moore and Portia Ravenelle were killed in a wreck when they lost control of their rental car, which went plunging into the ocean. However, Representatives Eliot Engel and Adriano Espaillat want federal agents to investigate why it took weeks for the country to iden- tify the couple, reported the
Orlando Moore and Portia Ravenelle on their trip to D. R.
New York Daily News.
“We write to request an im- mediate investigation into the reported deaths of Orlando Moore and Portia Ravenelle who never re- turned from their vacation in the Dominican Republic,” U. S. Reps. Eliot Engel and Adriano Espaillat said in a letter Wednesday to FBI Di- rector Christopher Wray.
Also, there remains several unanswered questions sur- rounding the deaths of Moore and Ravenelle.
“The FBI must work quickly to conduct a thorough investigation regarding details of their reported deaths that raise questions for us. It is es- sential that this investigation be conducted expeditiously so that both families can receive the closure they deserve,” the letter said.
According to local officials, Ravenelle was still alive when she was found on the side of the road on March 27. She was pronounced dead in a hospital on April 4. Moore’s body was pulled from the ocean about 19 miles away and identified on Wednesday. Authorities have not been able to recover the car from the water.
FBI To Investigate Mysterious
In Dominican Republic
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