Sen. Cory Booker is officially off the market.
The New Jersey Democrat took to Instagram on Tuesday to gleefully announce his engagement to girlfriend Alexis Lewis, a milestone moment that quickly had social media buzzing.
“I’m thrilled to share: Alexis and I are engaged!” Booker, 56, wrote alongside photos of the couple. “I am savoring the soul-affirming wonder of everyday life with my partner, best friend, and now my fiancée.”
The couple has been together for about a year and a half and currently shares a home in Washington, D.C., Booker revealed earlier this month in an interview with the Washington Examiner. The engagement photos, taken during a recent trip to Hawaii, showed the senator down on one knee with a ring box as Lewis smiled joyfully.
While the announcement drew plenty of well-wishes, many fans couldn’t help but point out Lewis’s striking resemblance to Booker’s famous ex, actress Rosario Dawson. “Congratulations…but you definitely have a type…literally thought she was Rosario!” one Instagram user commented. Others echoed the sentiment, joking that Lewis and Dawson could easily pass for sisters.
Booker and Dawson dated for around two years before splitting amicably in 2022, though the two reportedly remain close friends. Dawson, now 46, has continued her acting career while Booker has remained in the political spotlight.
The engagement comes during a busy stretch for the senator, who has represented New Jersey in the Senate since 2013. In recent months, Booker has made headlines for fiery speeches and bold stances within his own party. He accused fellow Democrats of showing “complicity” with the Trump administration after supporting a package of police funding bills, urging his colleagues to “draw a line” on law enforcement grants.
Earlier this year, he also delivered the longest speech ever on the Senate floor, an exhausting 25-hour marathon during which he abstained from food and water. Soon after, publisher St. Martin’s Press announced plans to release Stand, a book billed as a companion piece to his historic speech. Critics, however, accused Booker of trying to capitalize on the stunt.
Most recently, Booker distanced himself from progressive calls to “defund the police,” calling the movement “wrong,” and declined to back New York lawmaker Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral ambitions.
For now, though, politics has taken a backseat to personal happiness. Booker and Lewis’s joyful engagement announcement has set social media alight, and proved that even senators can’t escape a little playful comparison to exes.
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