Democrat Cory Booker drops out of 2020 US presidential race

Des Moines, Iowa: US Senator Cory Booker, an African-American candidate who had recently bemoaned the increasing lack of diversity in the Democratic presidential field, says he is ending his White House campaign.

Booker, a New Jersey Democrat, had been talked about as a potential presidential contender for two decades, ever since his underdog campaign for the mayor's office in Newark, New Jersey, was chronicled in an Academy Award-nominated documentary.

Cory Booker has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race.Credit:AP

His departure from the race leaves only a few candidates of color among the dozen Democrats still vying to take on US President Donald Trump in November, in what had once been the most historically diverse set of candidates in US history.

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