The Senator of New Jersey Cory Booker sets a record with 24-hour speech

In a performance of determination, the democratic senator of New Jersey Cory Booker held the Senate with a marathon speech that lasted all night and until Tuesday evening (local time) and a historical sign of the resistance of the Democrats against the comprehensive actions of President Donald Trump.

Booker went into the ground of the Senate on Monday evening and said he would stay there as long as he was “physically capable”. More than 24 hours later, the 55-year-old Senator, a former football tight end, still went. It made the recording for the longest continuous speech in the Senate in the history of the chamber, although Booker was supported by Democrats, who gave him a break from speaking by asking him questions on the ground of the Senate.

It was a remarkable show of perseverance when Democrats try to show their frustrated followers to do everything they can to deny Trump’s agenda. However, Booker also delivered a moment of historical consolation for a party that was looking forward to standing for a night and one night and a day on the Senate, he had broken a record to the then Senator Strom Thurmond by South Carolina, a segregationist, a record in 1957.

Now Booker, who spoke openly on the Senate of his roots as a descendant of slaves and slave owners, is holding this recording. In his speech, Booker said that he was based on the entirety of his ancestors because “they talk to America’s complicated history”.

The democratic leader of the house, Hakeem Jeffries, the first black party leader in the congress, who slipped into the Senate Chamber on Tuesday afternoon to see Booker, had “an incredibly powerful moment” because he had broken the recording of a segregationist and “fought for the preservation of the American way of life and our democracy”.

Nevertheless, Booker centered his speech on a call to his party to find his determination and to say: “We all have to look in the mirror and say:” We will do it better “.”

“These are not normal times in our nation,” said Booker when he started talking on Monday evening. “And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate. The threats to the American people and American democracy are serious and urgent, and we all have to do more to stand against them.”

Booker warns of a “impending constitutional crisis”

Booker switched his feet and then leaned towards his podium, scolded for hours against cuts at the social security offices, led by Trump Adviser Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency. He listed the effects of Trump’s early arrangements and spoke with concerns that a broader cuts of the social security network could come, even though Republican legislators say that the program is not touched.

Booker also read what he said, letters from voters who put on and thin out his reading glasses. A writer was concerned about the speech by the Republican President, Greenland and Canada, and an “impending constitutional crisis”.

Throughout the day on Tuesday, Booker received help from democratic colleagues who gave him a break from the conversation to ask him a question and praise his performance. Booker issued questions, but asked that he would not give up the ground. He remained standing to comply with the rules of the Senate.

“Your strength, her strength, her clarity was just amazing and all of America pays attention to what you say,” said Chuck Schumer, the democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer when he asked Booker about the Senate. “All America must know that there are so many problems that catastrophic acts of this administration.”

When Booker stood for hours for hours for the hour, he seemed nothing more than a few glasses of water to get it. But his voice became strong with emotions when his speech stretched into the afternoon, and the members of the Congress Black Caucus, including the democratic owners Hakeem Jeffries, were on the edge of the Senate to support Booker.

“This is a very powerful and fundamental moment led by Booker,” said Jeffries.

For his part, Booker asked his democratic colleagues to look for their basic values ​​in order to find the determination of counteracting the Republican President.

“Moments like this require that we are more creative or imaginative or just more persistent and stubborn and determined,” said Booker.

Booker’s cousin and brother as well as democratic helpers watched the chamber gallery. Senator Chris Murphy accompanied Booker through the Senate all day. Murphy replied the camaraderie that Booker had given him in 2016 when the Connecticut Democrat held the ground for almost 15 hours to argue for the legislation of arms control.

His speech of the Senate floor breaks the record of Thurmonds

When Booker approached Thurmond’s record, he noticed: “I don’t have that much gas in my tank”.

However, the anticipation in the Capitol grew that he was able to replace Thurmond, who died in 2003, as a record holder for the longest speech on the Senate floor. Democratic senators sat at their desks to listen and the Senate Gallery full of spectators.

He had already exceeded the longest language for a seated senator – the 21 hours and 19 minutes, in which Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican in Texas, had held the ground to contest the Affordable Care Act 2013. At the reaction to his record that was broken, Cruz published a meme from Homer Simpson on social media.

During his determined performance, Booker repeated himself on Tuesday the representative of the civil rights leader, John Lewis from Georgia, and argued that the overcoming of opponents like Thurmond would require more than just talking.

“One day we think we got civil rights because electricity tower – after the 24 -hour filibusting – you think we got civil rights because one day he came to the ground and said:” I saw the light “.” Said Booker. “No, we got civil rights because people marched afterwards, sweated and John Lewis bleed.”

Booker’s speech was not a filibuster, a speech that is supposed to stop the progress of a specific law. Instead, Booker’s performance was a broader criticism of Trump’s agenda, which was stopped by the Senate business and made aware of what Democrats do to deny the president. Without a majority in both congress chamber, the Democrats are almost completely locked up from the legislative power, but turn to process -related maneuvers to try to thwart the Republicans.

Can his speech gather anti-trump resistance?

Booker serves his second term in the Senate. He was an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2020 when he started his campaign from the stages of his house in Newark. He broke out after he had tried to gain a foothold in a fully packed field, and fell behind the threshold, which was to be made in a debate in January 2020.

But when Democrats are looking for a next generation of leadership that is frustrated by the classic cars at the top, Booker’s speech could consolidate his status as a leading figure in the party.

On Tuesday afternoon, tens of thousands of people on the YouTube page of Booker and other live streams looked at each other.

Before he went to the national political stage, Booker was considered the mayor of Newark, the largest city of Newark, the largest city in the state, from 2006 to 2013.

During his studies, he played a close end for the Stanford University’s football team. He became a Rhodes scholar and completed the Yale Law before starting his career as a lawyer for non -profit organizations.

He was elected in the US Senate for the first time in 2013, while a special election took place after the end of the reigning Democrat Frank Lautenberg. In 2014 he won his first full term and re -election in 2020.

When democratic colleagues made their way to the Senate Chamber to help Booker by asking him questions, he also healed his fellow serators warmly and remembered their personal backgrounds and divided experience in the Senate. Booker also asked the Americans not only to react with resistance to Trump’s actions, but also with kindness and generosity for those in their communities.

Booker said: “I may be afraid – my voice may shake – but I’ll speak more.”