Trump mocks Booker over suspended presidential campaign

President Trump on Monday mocked Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-N.J.) withdrawal from the Democratic primary, tweeting sarcastically that he would be able to “rest easy tonight.”

“Really Big Breaking News (Kidding): Booker, who was in zero polling territory, just dropped out of the Democrat Presidential Primary Race,” Trump tweeted. “Now I can rest easy tonight. I was sooo concerned that I would someday have to go head to head with him!”

Really Big Breaking News (Kidding): Booker, who was in zero polling territory, just dropped out of the Democrat Presidential Primary Race. Now I can rest easy tonight. I was sooo concerned that I would someday have to go head to head with him!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2020

Booker announced earlier Monday that he would suspend his presidential campaign. He failed to qualify for the last Democratic debate and did not meet the threshold to participate in Tuesday’s debate, and the senator acknowledged he did not see a path to the nomination.

“I will carry this fight forward — I just won’t be doing it as a candidate for president this year,” Booker said in an email to supporters.

The president has made a habit of sending sarcastic tweets after a Democrat suspends their campaign for president, firing off similar messages in recent months about Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), among others, as the 2020 field winnows.

Trump’s tweet mocking Booker marked the fourth individual Democrat the president attacked on Twitter on Monday morning. He targeted Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in earlier messages.