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Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Speech Strikes a Chord at Home

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New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker took to the Senate floor at 7 p.m. on March 31 and did not yield the floor for more than 25 hours.
From USA TODAY
In a historic speech that literally lasted more than a day — 25 hours and four minutes, to be exact — the New Jersey senator lambasted President Trump’s damaging, cruel, chaotic, and Constitution-defy...
From The Boston Globe
For more than a day between Monday night and Tuesday evening this week, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) captured the country’s attention with an extraordinary speech protesting President Trump.
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‘Finally Some Fire’: Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Speech Strikes a Chord at Home
Many Democrats, including in Mr. Booker’s home state of New Jersey, reveled in his stamina and moxie as he assailed President Trump in the longest Senate speech on record.
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New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a speech that lasted more than 25 hours and broke the record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, 68 years ago.
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By any measure, Democratic Senator Cory Booker’s marathon speech on the Senate floor was a stunt. But it was also mesmerizing and inspiring — a display of perseverance and defiance at a time when this country desperately needed it.
Booker’s message was powerful and simple: Just do something. Now it’s your turn
A senator's record-breaking speech showed Democrats, and America, that silence is not an option in the Trump era.
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Sen. Cory Booker broke the record with his 25-hour-long speech protesting the Trump Administration’s policies.
Cory Booker’s 26th Hour
Cory Booker (D-NJ) captured the country’s attention with an extraordinary speech protesting President Trump. Booker’s 25 hours-plus remarks on the Senate floor broke a more than 60-year-old record while earning hundreds of thousands of views and hundreds of millions of likes on social media.
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Sen. Cory Booker on his marathon, 25-hour speech on the Senate floor
Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, told NPR's Juana Summers he stopped eating and drinking before his record-breaking speech.
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New Jersey senate leader fawns over Booker’s 25-hour protest as ‘resolute power’
New Jersey Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Ruiz issued a glowing statement Thursday praising U.S. Senator Cory Booker for delivering a
Is Cory Booker Running for President?
Senator Cory Booker's record-breaking speech has stirred presidential speculation, but experts told Newsweek it's too early to know how viable of a candidate he may be in 2028.Newsweek reached out to Booker for comment via his office and political team.
With a nod to America’s civil rights legacy, Sen. Cory Booker makes a mark of his own
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen.
Ted Cruz threatens fire alarm to cut short Cory Booker's Senate showdown
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz threatened to pull the fire alarm on the Senate floor Tuesday to cut U.S. Senator Cory Booker's speech off.
Cory Booker Staffer Arrested for Carrying Pistol on Capitol Grounds
A staffer for Cory Booker was arrested Monday for allegedly carrying a pistol on Capitol grounds without a license.
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