Overview

• Booker revealed the engagement on Instagram on Sept. 2 with tropical beach photos, including an image of him proposing on one knee.
• He said he and Lewis have been together for about a year and a half after meeting on a blind date arranged by a mutual friend.
• The couple live together in Washington, D.C., a detail Booker disclosed in an interview last month.
• Reports describe this as the 56-year-old senator’s first engagement.
• Social media users noted Lewis’s resemblance to Rosario Dawson, Booker’s ex who split from him in 2022 and posted public congratulations.