Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker quickly copped to “misspeaking” on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday about the number of deaths from gun violence — then issued a follow-up to correct his correction.

Booker, a major Twitter user, tweeted Sunday morning that he’d been wrong about the number of daily gun deaths:

Just caught myself miss-speaking on ABC. Its hundreds being killed everyday not thousands. Sorry about that.
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Two minutes later, he was back with this note:

Sorry again, officially it is approximately 30 people murdered every day due to gun violence.
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Booker emerged as something of a Democratic Party rock star last year and has said he will formally announce his candidacy for the U.S. Senate this fall.