Cory Booker
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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.
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.
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.
And then he pulled something off in the last election that rarely has happened. I think only once before in my time in the Senate where a senator won re-election in a state where the president of the opposite party won. Well, Chuck pulled the trifecta off. He won in Wisconsin. He won in Michigan. He won in Arizona. Seats that, by all intents and purposes, we should have lost.
And then he pulled something off in the last election that rarely has happened. I think only once before in my time in the Senate where a senator won re-election in a state where the president of the opposite party won. Well, Chuck pulled the trifecta off. He won in Wisconsin. He won in Michigan. He won in Arizona. Seats that, by all intents and purposes, we should have lost.
And then he pulled something off in the last election that rarely has happened. I think only once before in my time in the Senate where a senator won re-election in a state where the president of the opposite party won. Well, Chuck pulled the trifecta off. He won in Wisconsin. He won in Michigan. He won in Arizona. Seats that, by all intents and purposes, we should have lost.
And we obviously had great candidates, but Chuck was
And we obviously had great candidates, but Chuck was
And we obviously had great candidates, but Chuck was