Booker’s Campaign Uses Julián Castro’s Exit From Race as Fundraising Opportunity

After Julián Castroannounced he was suspending his presidential campaign, Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-N.J.) campaign saw a fundraising opportunity.

On Thursday, Booker’s campaign sent out a fundraising email decrying the news that “yet another candidate of color” dropped out of what was once the most diverse primary field in history.

Booker warned that while “talented, experienced, qualified candidates” are dropping out of the race, “billionaires with bottomless checkbooks” appear to have a path to the nomination,

“Here’s the reality: It seems like billionaires with bottomless checkbooks have a clearer path to the nomination than talented, experienced, qualified candidates like 👤Julian Castro.”

The email calls Castro’s departure a “loss for our party and this nomination process” and ends with an appeal for donations to support Booker — one of the few candidates of color still in the running for the nomination.

Booker has raised concerns about a lack of diversity in the primary field before, arguing that the primary process is unfairly hurting minority candidates’ chances of winning the nomination.

After Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) suspended her campaign, Booker