Cory Booker’s anti-Trump speech breaks record for longest Senate address

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Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest Senate speech in history after speaking for more than 24 hours.

Booker embarked on the marathon speech to warn of what he called the “grave and urgent” danger that Donald Trump’s presidential administration poses to democracy and the American people.

Beginning at 7pm on Monday night, the Democratic senator from New Jersey surpassed the previous record on Tuesday evening. In 1957, Strom Thurmond, a Republican from South Carolina, gave an anti-civil rights speech that lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes.

Booker used his time to decry Trump’s spending cuts, as well as the president’s attempts to abolish the Department of Education and deport people from the US who speak out against the administration.

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