Cory Booker
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We had people coming to our office, not even from our state because they saw this as an outpost, to tell us that they were going to lose their farm because Donald Trump had cut contracts. Stories that just were wrenching the guts of my staff. And they said that we've got to find a way to make those stories break through.
And so that was part of our strategy, was how do you get the nation to listen a little bit more in this terribly competitive attention economy that we have? What could break through? And obviously, in the back of my mind, I knew
And so that was part of our strategy, was how do you get the nation to listen a little bit more in this terribly competitive attention economy that we have? What could break through? And obviously, in the back of my mind, I knew
And so that was part of our strategy, was how do you get the nation to listen a little bit more in this terribly competitive attention economy that we have? What could break through? And obviously, in the back of my mind, I knew
That the same year that John Lewis wrote a letter to Martin Luther King and King then sent him a bus ticket that began that 1957, that year, was the same year that Strom Thurmond gave the longest speech in Senate history trying to stop Trump. Martin Luther King and John Lewis were doing in that letter exchange.
That the same year that John Lewis wrote a letter to Martin Luther King and King then sent him a bus ticket that began that 1957, that year, was the same year that Strom Thurmond gave the longest speech in Senate history trying to stop Trump. Martin Luther King and John Lewis were doing in that letter exchange.
That the same year that John Lewis wrote a letter to Martin Luther King and King then sent him a bus ticket that began that 1957, that year, was the same year that Strom Thurmond gave the longest speech in Senate history trying to stop Trump. Martin Luther King and John Lewis were doing in that letter exchange.
And so as a Black man who was not envisioned by Strom Thurmond ever serving in that body, in fact, I'm the fourth Black person ever popularly elected to that body after Barack Obama, who was the third, we knew that there was, if I could last 24 hours and 18 minutes, that we could potentially command
And so as a Black man who was not envisioned by Strom Thurmond ever serving in that body, in fact, I'm the fourth Black person ever popularly elected to that body after Barack Obama, who was the third, we knew that there was, if I could last 24 hours and 18 minutes, that we could potentially command
And so as a Black man who was not envisioned by Strom Thurmond ever serving in that body, in fact, I'm the fourth Black person ever popularly elected to that body after Barack Obama, who was the third, we knew that there was, if I could last 24 hours and 18 minutes, that we could potentially command
some attention from the public, never imagining that we would get on TikTok alone over 300 million people liking the live stream. We never thought that it would be as successful as it was.
some attention from the public, never imagining that we would get on TikTok alone over 300 million people liking the live stream. We never thought that it would be as successful as it was.
some attention from the public, never imagining that we would get on TikTok alone over 300 million people liking the live stream. We never thought that it would be as successful as it was.
And so that's the key here, which is to deal with the poverty of empathy we have in our nation right now, the poverty of realizing that this is happening to my neighbor, that that fundamentally implicates me and endangers me.
And so that's the key here, which is to deal with the poverty of empathy we have in our nation right now, the poverty of realizing that this is happening to my neighbor, that that fundamentally implicates me and endangers me.
And so that's the key here, which is to deal with the poverty of empathy we have in our nation right now, the poverty of realizing that this is happening to my neighbor, that that fundamentally implicates me and endangers me.
Well, let me first say that I may have disagreed with Senator Schumer vehemently in this instance.
Well, let me first say that I may have disagreed with Senator Schumer vehemently in this instance.
Well, let me first say that I may have disagreed with Senator Schumer vehemently in this instance.
But anybody who looks at the Senate in the last three or four years would have to say this guy, this tactician behind the scenes has racked up one hell of a record. I mean, the bipartisan bills that I watched in a front row seat, often being asked for assistance to get through, bipartisan gun bill, bipartisan chips act, bipartisan infrastructure bill. This is Chuck Schumer's leadership.