Sen. Corey Booker (DN.J.) said Wednesday that he wanted to unify the Democrats this week in his marathon floor speech after the Caucus was violently split over debates over last month's ongoing resolution.
In an interview with MSNBC's “The Beat With Ari Melber,” Booker described a nervous moment behind a closed room last month.
“You know, we had a terrible fight in the Senate, and I love 46 Democrat colleagues. But… if you were at those caucus meetings when you were debating what to do with the ongoing resolutions, everyone who actually stood up had strong feelings,” Booker said in an interview.
“But we were divided into one another about what to do,” he continued. “And I think I felt that way — I don't use the term “disappearing” but it's been pretty down since then.”
Booker said he began contacting people in his state around that time, and it said, “It really came together for me, I am enough and enough.”
Booker, the Senate fourth-ranked Democrat, said he is working with fellow Democrats to promote online engagement.
“But I said, I need to go out and do something, and I wanted to do something to unite our caucus and do something to unite those who believe the country is facing truly miserable waters now.
Booker began speaking on the Senate floor at 7pm Monday, speaking for 25 hours for five minutes, and eventually laying the bed at 8:05pm Tuesday. He surpassed previous 24-hour and 18-minute records set by former Sen. Strom Thurmond (SC), who tried to block the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
