As part of the Democrat Stuntapalooza we've seen over the two-plus months President Donald Trump has been in office, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) gave what Dems and their mainstream media allies have described as a "marathon speech" Monday night going into Tuesday night, with his colleagues occasionally joining him on the Senate floor to help keep him going.

Early Tuesday evening, Booker learned from embattled Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that he had "just broken the record" for the longest speech given in the Senate, something Booker admitted after the fact that he had been trying to do:

I was very aware of Strom Thurmond's record. Since I've gotten to the Senate, I always felt that it was a strange shadow hang over this institution, that the longest speech. All the issues have come up on noble causes that people have done, or the things it took to try to stop. I just found it strange that he had the record. And as a guy who's grew up with the legends of the civil rights movement, myself, my parents and other their friends, it just seemed wrong.

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As we noted earlier, the speech technically was not a filibuster because Booker was not blocking a Trump nominee nor any proposed legislation. This was a point Republican strategist/CNN commentator Scott Jennings zeroed in on during a segment where the topic was the speech and what type of impact, if any, it would have on Congress - and voters - in the coming weeks and months.

Here's what Jennings had to say:

It is a feat of longevity. I’m not sure what the point of it is. He didn’t stop any legislation. He didn’t hold up any nominations. He said it was a moral moment. So I guess, you know, as a Republican, I infer that he thinks half the country is immoral. And that kind of messaging to me is exactly what's been plaguing the Democrats for - certainly in the last election and the last several months is this idea, this hatefulness towards your fellow Americans because they chose a different party or voted a different way.

And our own Harry Enten reported that Congressional Democrats have a 21 percent approval rating, so in some respects there's nowhere to go but up.  And Cory Booker, I think, is trying to fill a vacuum. There's no real leadership nationally in the Democratic Party. Obviously, they don't have any confidence in Schumer, they've had a lot of radical voices out there who are trying to take control of the party. So maybe this was an attempt by him to try to wrest control of at least the spiritual leadership of the national party. I don't know if it will work.

Watch:

A political haiku:

Booker spoke for hours,
Nothing gained, approval low—
Dems at twenty-one. pic.twitter.com/BtE417gCVa

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) April 2, 2025

In other words, Booker's speech was predictably performative and self-serving but not much else, and it still doesn't get Democrats out of the hole they are in with voters.

But hey, it got him some time in the national spotlight and warmed up for perhaps another presidential run, so there's that at least.

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