Breaking Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest Senate speech in history was just one of the things Sen. Cory Booker accomplished on Tuesday.
Portions of his 25-hour-and-five-minute speech, which began Monday evening and ended Tuesday night, were viewed by millions of Americans, either on social media, on evening newscasts, at a time when President Trump has dominated headlines.
On his Senate website, the New Jersey Democrat touted some early numbers that the speech generated, including more than 350 million likes on the senator’s TikTok livestream of the speech.
The speech was also live-streamed on a number of other channels, including C-SPAN and the Associated Press, and led many national newscasts. For much of Tuesday, and especially as he drew closer to breaking the record set by Thurmond, a South Carolina Democrat, Booker became a trending topic on social media platforms like TikTok, BlueSky and X, whose former owner, Elon Musk, Booker criticized throughout the speech
Portions of his 25-hour-and-five-minute speech, which began Monday evening and ended Tuesday night, were viewed by millions of Americans, either on social media, on evening newscasts, at a time when President Trump has dominated headlines.
On his Senate website, the New Jersey Democrat touted some early numbers that the speech generated, including more than 350 million likes on the senator’s TikTok livestream of the speech.
The speech was also live-streamed on a number of other channels, including C-SPAN and the Associated Press, and led many national newscasts. For much of Tuesday, and especially as he drew closer to breaking the record set by Thurmond, a South Carolina Democrat, Booker became a trending topic on social media platforms like TikTok, BlueSky and X, whose former owner, Elon Musk, Booker criticized throughout the speech
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