--- title: Cory Booker and Mindy Kaling Flirt on Twitter 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? canonical: https://time.com/4712527/cory-booker-mindy-kaling-twitter/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-24T18:12:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:14.477Z og:title: Cory Booker and Mindy Kaling Are Totally Flirting og:description: Tweets don't lie og:url: https://time.com/4712527/cory-booker-mindy-kaling-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e4d823c062008d6/6988bfca2dce0197cd9ecc26/mindy-kaling-cory-booker-twitter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cory Booker and Mindy Kaling Are Totally Flirting twitter:description: Tweets don't lie twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e4d823c062008d6/6988bfca2dce0197cd9ecc26/mindy-kaling-cory-booker-twitter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Cory Booker Just Asked Mindy Kaling to Dinner on Twitter. 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(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) ```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. 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