Sad news for the dozens of people who liked this couple: Senator Cory Booker and Rosario Dawson have broken up! To be fair, I like Cory Booker a lot and Rosario seems pretty cool when she’s not being a Bernie Bro. But I never liked them as a couple and it felt like other people kind of considered them an odd pairing too. They started dating in 2018 and much of their relationship was long-distance, with Rosario being New York-based and Booker needing to be in Washington or New Jersey most of the time. Still, I think they were happy together for a while… until they weren’t.

Rosario Dawson and Sen. Cory Booker have called it quits on their relationship of more than two years, PEOPLE confirms. A source close to the New Jersey lawmaker says the former couple aren’t dating anymore but remain good friends. (A Booker rep had no comment; reps for Dawson did not respond to a request.)

Dawson and Booker first crossed paths at a political fundraiser for a mutual friend in summer 2018. Though sparks didn’t fly right away, months later, the two reconnected.

“I mean, gosh, that night we talked for hours and hours,” Booker, 52, told The Washington Post in 2019. “I had trouble asking for her phone number … I think I said something really stupid like, ‘Uh, how would I get in touch with you?’ And she mercifully said something like, ‘Oh, you want my phone number?’ And my insides were like, ‘Hell, yeah!’ ”

Dawson, 42, told the paper she found Booker to be “so charming,” “confident,” and “capable” — all despite their initial slow start.

“It’s not like that translates to being some super-smooth kind of guy,” she said at the time. “That’s not his style.” But his sense of humor helped. “What wins me over with him is definitely the dad jokes,” Dawson told the Post.

[From People]

It’s interesting that Sen. Booker is one of the few single men in the Senate and it’s interesting that his single status hasn’t really hurt him politically. Most men in politics (and in life) benefit from a “family man” image, while Booker has always represented something else which is wildly relatable: someone who is too much of a workaholic to make a relationship work. Anyway, it sounds like an amicable split and I wonder if he’s going to date a non-celebrity next.

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