It will all end in flames
The idea of politics as a sport is a familiar analogy. For a little more than 25 hours from Monday to Tuesday evening, politics left behind the metaphor and became a grueling, perhaps even dangerous, ultramarathon. Senator Cory Booker’s record-breaking speech—an “oratorical marathon” and a “feat of political endurance,” according to reporters—was nearly an hour longer than Strom Thurmond’s...
Continue Reading on https://www.theatlantic.comSign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Between 7 p.m. on Monday and 8:05 p.m. on Tuesday, Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor, offering a speech that broke the record set by Strom Thurmond in 1957 when he filibustered the Civil Rights Act for 24 hours and 18 minutes. Booker lasted 25 hours and five...
Continue Reading on https://slate.com/Senator Cory Booker’s staff members described a nagging fear as they worked for a week to fill 15 binders with enough material to cover what would soon become a history-making, 25-hour speech. What if no one listened? Their worry was short-lived. By 11 a.m. on Tuesday, 16 hours after Mr. Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, had begun railing against President Trump’s policies on the floor of the...
Continue Reading on https://drudgereport.comis a senior politics reporter at Vox, where he covers the Democratic Party. He joined Vox in 2022 after reporting on national and international politics for the Atlantic’s politics, global, and ideas teams, including the role of Latino voters in the 2020 election. If you check in on any of New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker’s social media pages today, you’ll probably notice that he’s been talking...
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