Booker, Filibuster and Elon Musk
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Longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz was so impressed by the record-breaking speech by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) this week that he thinks the Democratic Party may have a new leader in its midst. “I want to emphasize what Cory Booker did over the last 24 hours may have changed the course of political history,
As Cory Booker spoke on the Senate floor through Monday night and into Tuesday morning - an 18-hour address (not quite a filibuster, as no bill or nominee was being debated) attacking President Trump and Elon Musk's gutting of federal programs like Medicaid and Social Security - it evoked memories of another epic legislative speech: Patton Oswalt's Star Wars filibuster.
Who is Cory Booker? Well, the new Senate speech record-holder ran for president not so long ago and stopped by our studio in Rock Island to speak on 4 The Record. Here’s what he had to say then compared to what he said on the Senate floor over 25 hours.