A Democratic U.S. Senator Cory Booker, Senator Cory Booker, broke the record in his longest speech in Senate history on Tuesday, and his footsteps lasted more than 25 hours to protest President Donald Trump’s “unconstitutional” action.

Booker’s Endurance Showcase – To keep the floor, he had to stay standing and couldn’t even go to the bathroom – recalls the famous scene of Frank Capra’s 1939 film classic Mr. Smith, who went to Washington.

South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond’s longest Senate speech on Tuesday was 24 hours and 18 minutes in the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Booker, just the fourth black senator to be widely elected as a body, blows that deadline and his voice is still strong but exciting as he gets on the race in 25 hours and 5 minutes (five minutes).

He later told broadcaster MSNBC: “Strom Thurmond’s records always…really make me angry.”

“The longest speech on the ground of our Grand Senate was someone trying to stop someone like me from attending the Senate.”

The moment he broke the record, the public gallery in the Senate Chamber gradually filled, with Democratic lawmakers attending the meeting, although Republicans were largely away.

“It’s a moral moment. It’s not left or right. Is it right or wrong,” Booker said at the end.

He also quoted John Lewis, a mentor to the 1960s civil rights movement leader John Lewis, who urged the campaigners to get into “good trouble” and then finally declared “Madam President, I surrender.”

The 55-year-old New Jersey native found some humorous moments when he passed the record, joked: “I thought about it a little bit and then I’m going to deal with some of the biological urgency I feel.”

“Basics of Democracy”

Despite Booker’s conversation – thon didn’t actually stop most Republicans from voting in the Senate, and just like in real words and deeds, his contempt quickly became a rallying point for troubled Democrats.

Former presidential candidate Booker seized the headquarters at the Chamber of Commerce on Monday at 7pm on Tuesday and ended at 8:05pm on Tuesday (PKT 5:05am) on 8:05pm.

He slams Trump’s radical cost-cutting policies that have seen his top adviser Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man who cuts out the entire administration’s plans without Congress’ consent.

The senator said Trump’s active occupation of an increasing number of executive power puts our democracy at risk.

Booker said: “Unnecessary difficulties are borne by Americans of all backgrounds.

“In just 71 days, the President of the United States poses a huge harm to the security of Americans, financial stability and the core foundation of our democracy,” he said.

But he has encouraged Trump’s opponents, saying that “the power of the people is greater than that of those in power.”

Cramps and sore throat

Booker later gave a detailed look at how he endured the physical demands of his speech.

“My strategy is to stop eating. I think I stop eating on Friday and then stop drinking the night before Monday starts,” he told a reporter at the Capitol.

He added that this approach “has benefits and really disadvantages…the different muscle groups are starting to really exhaust themselves”.

Booker added in a statement released in his office that he was “tired and a little hoarse.”

In both Senate and House minorities, Democratic lawmakers are struggling to see how to weaken Trump’s efforts to reduce the size of the administration, strengthen deportation and weaken most of the country’s political norms.

“I just want to thank you for holding a vigil for this country all night,” Senator Raphael Warnock told Booker on the floor.

Booker devoted most of his speeches to criticizing Trump’s policies, but to save time, he also recited poems, discussed sports and entertained colleagues.

“If you love your neighbors, if you love this country, show your love. Stop them from doing what they are trying to do [do],” he said.