“I’ve run for three offices in my life — this is the fourth — and it was a massive issue when I ran for city council. My pollster said he’d never seen anything like it — it was the No. 1 concern when I ran for mayor of Newark the first and second time: safety, violence,” says Cory Booker. We’re sitting on an Amtrak train from Milwaukee — where Booker’s just wrapped up a roundtable discussion on gun-violence prevention in a coffee shop — to Chicago, and Booker is trying to make sure I understand how central the issue is to his

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