Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is very fond of one particular corny joke


Judging people by their old tweets is dicey business — just ask Disney and Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn. And digging up very old tweets to vet 2020 presidential candidates "is a low blow," writer Anna Fitzpatrick tweeted Monday. "Every tweet from 2009 is bad." But her example of a bad tweet, from Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), didn't work out exactly as planned.
It turns out, as Fitzpatrick discovered, Booker joked about his love triangle with "Sleep" and "Coffee," with some variation of how "hot" his boo "Coffee" is, at least a dozen times, as recently as 2017. Fitzpatrick compiled all dozen iterations, but she still doesn't want this to define Booker's candidacy, urging people to "please base your votes on policy and not on how goofy a politician's twitter feed is or isn't." But there's definitely room for poking Booker about his corny joke.
Fitzgerald had one more request.
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Since Booker and Rosario Dawson reportedly started dating last year, there was no documented overlap with "Coffee," so it's all good.
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