NEWARK-New Jersey Senator Cory Booker has all but abandoned his post in the U.S. Senate in his neverending quest to run for President of the United States, or as some think, he’s marketing himself to be on a ticket for Vice President of the United States.   Now, he’s accusing the Democrat Party of being racist.

Booker who failed to meet the party’s criteria for being on the stage in the next national debate said it wasn’t his lack of fundraising or less than 1% showing that resulted in his disqualification, but the color of his skin.

“The DNC’s debate thresholds have systematically paved the way for a billionaire to buy his way onto the stage while pushing out candidates of color from participating,” Booker said in a campaign fundraiser email. “We pride ourselves on being the party of inclusion, yet time and time again our candidates of color are cutting their campaigns short because they don’t have the financial resources to continue on.”

Republican candidate for Senator Hirsh Singh, who is challenging Booker said enough is enough with New Jersey’s no-show senator.

“It’s time to finish him off NJ. Booker BLAMES the DNC of racism because less than 3% of the American people are willing to endorse his radicalized political agenda,” Singh said.

The Democrat Party, which has long deemed the Republican Party as the party of out of touch rich white male millionaires has become a race between Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren. Each of the party’s leading candidates are in their 70’s and have amassed million-dollar fortunes during their decades in public office.

TRENTON-Marijuana isn’t legalized yet in New Jersey, but Governor Phil Murphy must be smoking something.   Murphy today criticized President Donald J. Trump and Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew for the poor job Trump has done with the American economy and tooting his own horn on a yet-to-be-realized $15 minimum wage increase slowly edging its way into the flailing New Jersey economy.

“With the impeachment process continuing to unfold in Washington and unrest in the Middle East, the last thing President Trump should be focused on is coming to New Jersey to campaign for Jeff Van Drew. Doing so speaks to President Trump’s misplaced priorities and refusal to put what’s best for the country ahead of his own politics,” Murphy said. ““While President Trump and the Republicans have been showering the wealthy with tax cuts and pinching the middle class by slashing the SALT tax deduction, Democrats are working to enhance quality of life for our middle class and working families. Working with the Legislature, we’ve ushered in paid family leave and equal pay protections, and just this week New Jersey’s minimum wage increased to $11/hour on its way to $15/hour. President Trump and the Republicans in Washington haven’t delivered any progress for the middle class, and New Jerseyans know that Jeff Van Drew now stands firmly with that failed record.”

Murphy did not mention in his accomplishments, New Jersey’s sanctuary state status, illegal drivers licenses and the revolving door of criminal justice reform in New jersey.

“New Jersey is a state that supports the middle class and those striving to join it. Those are values that President Trump does not share, and his newly-minted fellow Republican Jeff Van Drew will never act to hold him accountable. That’s why it’s so important for Democrats to retake this district in November,” Murphy said.

TOMS RIVER-Leftist, Socialist Democrat Andy Kim, representing New Jersey’s third congressional district in Washington, D.C. is having a hard time these days trying to figure out which side of the issue he’s on when it comes to President Donald J. Trump’s decision to strike against Iranian General Qassim Solemeini.

Photo: Andy Kim with President Barack Obama and leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Kim, a former note-taker for U.S. General David Petreaus confirmed Solemeini’s role in the deaths of hundreds of U.S. troops during the Iraqi war, agreed the general should have been a target, but stopped short of approving the strike that killed him and other staff members last week…because, you know, Trump did it.

Before being elected to Congress, Kim worked in the Obama administration’s think tank on Iraqi military affairs.  During his tenure in office, Obama oversaw at least 50 billion dollars in aid to Iran which Trump claims funded the attacks against Americans in Iraq.  Obama later paid a $1.7 billion cash ransom to Iran in exchange for the release of American prisoners held in the country.  During Obama’s eight-year war in Iraq, inaction led to the growth of ISIS, which later spread to the entire region before being defeated during Trump’s administration.

“Suleimani was a murderer who has the blood of Americans and our allies on his hands. There is no doubt about that. But there is also no doubt that these strikes significantly heighten the risk to Americans living in the region including our military and diplomatic presence,” Kim said initially after the strike that killed the general. “The potential for severe retaliation from Iran and Iranian-backed forces is very real, and decisions made during the coming hours and days will determine whether we see the threat of a greater regional war in the Middle East realized.”

We all know Andy Kim is a supersmart genius and an expert in military strategy and we know that he knows Iran does not want war with the U.S.  After all, the country has been saber-rattling since the mid-1970’s and lacks the ability or the desire to confront America head-on.

But Kim added, “We need to ensure the safety of Americans in the region and to take every measure to avoid the outbreak of war.”

Kim is walking a fine line with Trump and Iran.  On one hand, Kim is trying to appease his close ally, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat whack-pack.  On the other, Kim realizes half of his district is Trump country and he can’t go full-boat socialist in public anymore.

So Kim later went slightly more on the Trump side of the issue.

Andy Kim claims he was a key high-level staffer in the Obama Whitehouse. Here he is with leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood and President Obama. Photo courtesy of Obama Whitehouse.

“Qasem Suleimani had a vision for the Middle East without American forces where Iran was the undisputed power of the region. With the developments today of the Iraqi Parliament voting to expel U.S. troops from Iraq and the Iranian announcement of their full withdrawal of the diplomatic process to halt their nuclear weapons ambitions, Suleimani’s goals, not ours, are being realized,” Kim said. “We can still stop this slide. We cannot allow ISIS to regain their footing, as to do so would erase hard fought gains and put us at further risk. We cannot give up on diplomatic efforts to halt nuclear weapons as to do so would leave only nightmarish scenarios on the table.”

Realizing Trump’s action might actually work, and realizing he doesn’t want to be the bad Monday morning quarterback, Kim slipped further away from the Pelosi-Schumer narrative.

Kim also did not waste any time using Trump’s strike against Iran to patronize local veterans and service members in anticipation of this year’s election.

“I couldn’t be more proud of the brave men and women from our Joint Base serving in the Middle East,” Kim said. “My priority is always going to be ensuring their safety, and making sure that when we put them in harm’s way, we do so with a strategy and an end.”