UpdateDemocratic senator Cory Booker sets a record with marathon speech in bid to rally anti-Trump resistance
- “The threats to the American people and American democracy are grave and urgent, and we all must do more to stand against them,” the legislator from New Jersey said
- It was a remarkable show of stamina as Democrats try to show their frustrated supporters that they are doing everything possible to contest Trump’s agenda
- The speech was not a filibuster, but a critique of Trump’s agenda, meant to hold up the Senate’s business and draw attention to what Democrats are doing to contest the president