A day after a story broke that Newark Mayor Cory Booker was considering a U.S. Senate run, Booker addressed that speculation in the short-term. The mayor said he would not run in 2012 against U.S. Senate Robert Menendez. The door was left open for a potential Senate run in 2014 against Frank Lautenberg. Booker simply pointed to that being in the future and that he is focusing on being mayor of Newark.