The candidates stuck in D.C.
Jan 17, 2020
3 minutes
By Philip Elliott
PHOTOGRAPH BY TAMIR KALIFA
—With reporting by
CHARLOTTE ALTER/NEW YORK, LISSANDRA VILLA/DES MOINES, IOWA,
and
ABBY VESOULIS/WASHINGTON
THE LOOMING SENATE TRIAL OF PRESIDENT Donald Trump has claimed its first victim, and it’s not the besieged Commander in Chief, any of his closest aides or even a Republican. On Jan. 13, Senator Cory Booker ended his race for the Democrats’ White House nomination, blaming the decision partly on the fact that “the urgent business of impeachment will rightly be keeping me in Washington.”
Booker’s attendance at Trump’s trial
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