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"Folks see in him what they want to see in a leader of the free world," Christale Spain, chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, told USA TODAY.
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Democratic Sen. Cory Booker neared Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history Tuesday night, the typically sparsely filled viewing galleries above the Senate floor grew packed.
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Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) delivered a 25-hour speech on the Senate floor this week, surpassing the previous Senate record for longest speech.
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WASHINGTON – It's been more than 20 hours. Sen. Cory Booker has not sat down, or even wandered far from his desk on the Senate floor, where he has been delivering a marathon speech railing against President Donald Trump and his administration's sweeping policy changes.
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Booker invoked the late Congressman John Lewis and urged Americans to make “good trouble” as Lewis had in opposing Jim Crow laws.
The New Jersey Democrat spoke for 25 hours and five minutes without rest to protest the president’s actions in his second term.
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I rise tonight because I believe, sincerely, that our country is in crisis,” Booker said in his history-making speech.
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The lawmaker who's been holding the Senate floor with a lengthy speech railing against President Donald Trump's Republican agenda is a New Jersey Democrat who once found common ground with the president during his first term.