Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

After his first week in office Booker announced a 100-day plan to implement reforms in Newark. As well as raising over $6 million for the race Booker attacked Rice as a "political crony" of James. In February 2013 responding to a Twitter post Booker helped a nervous constituent propose to his girlfriend.

He was first elected in 2006 and had previously served as a Newark City Councilor from 1998 to 2002. He is a graduate of Stanford University Yale Law School and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.