--- ---  # Cory Booker Just Asked Mindy Kaling to Dinner on Twitter. She Said Yes.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 24, 2017 6:12 PM UTC  BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 26: Mindy Kaling arrives for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 26, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Karwai Tang/Getty Images) BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 26: Mindy Kaling arrives for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 26, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Karwai Tang/Getty Images)Karwai Tang—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 24, 2017 6:12 PM UTC In a case of life imitating art, [Mindy Kaling](http://time100.time.com/2013/04/18/time-100/slide/mindy-kaling/) and [New Jersey Senator Cory Booker](http://time.com/4631737/cory-booker-jeff-sessions-hearing-2020/) may have just started a romance — or at the very least, a beautiful friendship — on Twitter, in a series of events that seem more fitting for the rom-com heavy plotlines of Kaling’s show [_The Mindy Project_](http://time.com/3860406/hulu-the-mindy-project/). It all began when Booker sent Kaling a tweet that playfully called out her character Mindy Lahiri’s shoutout to Booker and her apparent negative view of Newark in a recent episode, while still reassuring Kaling that he loved her despite the gentle criticism. Kaling responded with equal enthusiasm and affection, telling Booker that the love was “mutual!” > [](https://twitter.com/CoryBooker/status/844971581084516353) > [](https://twitter.com/mindykaling/status/844973476007989249) Booker seized this opportunity to ask Kaling to join him for dinner in Newark — and was rewarded with an affirmative tweet from Kaling, who said that she would have to find a PATH train schedule. > [](https://twitter.com/mindykaling/status/844996730449899520) Booker, however, ever the gentleman, told Kaling that he would send her a car. If that’s not romance, then nothing is. > [](https://twitter.com/CoryBooker/status/845003316732055552) Cory Booker and Mindy Kaling Flirt on Twitter ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4712527/cory-booker-mindy-kaling-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4712527/cory-booker-mindy-kaling-twitter/"},"headline":"Cory Booker Just Asked Mindy Kaling to Dinner on Twitter. She Said Yes.","datePublished":"2017-03-24T18:12:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:14.477Z","description":"Senator Cory Booker and Mindy Kaling exchanged some flirtations and a plan for a meet-up in Newark — could this be the start of a romance?","url":"https://time.com/4712527/cory-booker-mindy-kaling-twitter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","celebrities","twitter","Cory Booker","Mindy Kaling","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e4d823c062008d6/6988bfca2dce0197cd9ecc26/mindy-kaling-cory-booker-twitter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e4d823c062008d6/6988bfca2dce0197cd9ecc26/mindy-kaling-cory-booker-twitter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter - Arrivals","caption":"2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter - Arrivals","creditText":"Karwai Tang—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4712527/cory-booker-mindy-kaling-twitter/","name":"Cory Booker Just Asked Mindy Kaling to Dinner on Twitter. She Said Yes."}}]}] ```