Cory Booker, Steve Lonegan

Democrat Cory Booker, left, looks on as Republican Steve Lonegan answers a question during their first debate of the U.S. Senate campaign in Trenton, N.J., Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, 12 days before the special Senate election. Booker is Newark’s two-term mayor. Lonegan is the former state director of a conservative advocacy group, Americans for Prosperity, and former mayor of Bogota, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)