“The consumer confidence in this country has gone way down.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
Cory Booker
U.S. Senator, D-N.J.. 8 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2019 to 2025. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.
“There is a direct connection between discriminatory policies within the USDA and the enormous land loss we have seen among Black farmers over the past century.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: Booker’s claim is supported by findings in USDA reports, legal settlements between the department and Black farmers and expert opinion.
“National polls have “never predicted who will be president from our party. Carter was in the single digits a few months before caucuses. Bill Clinton was. Obama — 20 points behind in the national polls roughly.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
“Right here in this great state of Georgia, it was the voter suppression, particularly of African-American communities, that prevented us from having a Gov. Stacey Abrams right now.”
PolitiFact rated this: Not provable
“We have had more people die in America [from gun violence] in my lifetime than in every single war combined.”
Washington Post rated this: Facile comparison
“[N]uclear is more than 50 percent of our non-carbon causing energy. So people who think that we can get [to carbon-free electricity] without nuclear being part of the blend just aren't looking at the facts.”
FactCheck.org rated this: We Explain the Science
“We can specifically and demonstrably now show that there are 17,000 people unjustly incarcerated in America.”
PolitiFact rated this: Needs context
“We have more African Americans under criminal supervision today than all the slaves in 1850.”
Washington Post rated this: False