Kamala Har­ris Prais­es Cory Book­er’s Marathon Speech: ‘We Must Con­tin­ue to Fight’

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<div>Kamala Harris Praises Cory Booker's Marathon Speech: 'We Must Continue to Fight'</div>

Failed Demo­c­rat Pres­i­den­tial can­di­date and for­mer Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris praised Sen. Cory Book­er (D‑NJ) after he deliv­ered a marathon speech on the Sen­ate floor.

Book­er made his­to­ry after deliv­er­ing the longest Sen­ate speech on record, for a total of over 25 hours. In a post shared to his account over 13 hours into the speech, Book­er assert­ed his inten­tion was to “lift the voic­es of Amer­i­cans who are being harmed by Pres­i­dent Trump.”

“I’m head­ing to the Sen­ate floor because Don­ald Trump and Elon Musk have shown a com­plete dis­re­gard for the rule of law, the Con­sti­tu­tion, and the needs of the Amer­i­can peo­ple,” he said pri­or to his speech.

Har­ris was among those who praised Book­er for his stunt.

“The true mea­sure of a leader is not based on who you beat down but on who you lift up,” she said, shar­ing a pho­to of the two speak­ing along­side her cap­tion.

“For over 24 hours, my friend @corybooker stood on the floor of the Sen­ate and lift­ed up the voic­es of the Amer­i­can peo­ple harmed by the cur­rent admin­is­tra­tion,” she con­tin­ued.

“We must con­tin­ue to fight for the best of who we are as Amer­i­cans,” Har­ris added. “Thank you, Cory, for your lead­er­ship.”

“I may be tired and a lit­tle hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Sen­ate floor, this is a moment where we can­not afford to be silent, when we must speak up,” Book­er said on social media after his speech:

What’s most clear to me tonight is that this is just the begin­ning, that Amer­i­cans across this coun­try, no mat­ter their title or par­ty, are ready to be heard. I believe that his­to­ry will show we rose to meet this moment. It will show we did not let the chaos and divi­sion go unan­swered. It will show that when our pres­i­dent chose to spread lies and sow fear, we chose to come togeth­er, to work togeth­er, and to rise togeth­er.

Speak­ing to MSNBC’s Rachel Mad­dow, Book­er admit­ted that the Sen­ate speech record held by Demo­c­rat Sen. Strom Thur­mond (D‑SC) “irked me,” ref­er­enc­ing the Democrat’s fil­i­buster of the Civ­il Rights Act of 1957.

“And to be can­did, Strom Thurmond’s record always kind of just real­ly irked me… the longest speech on our great Sen­ate floor was some­one who was try­ing to stop peo­ple like me from being in the Sen­ate,” he said.

“So to sur­pass that was some­thing I didn’t know if we could do, but it was some­thing that was real­ly once we got clos­er, became more and more impor­tant to me,” Book­er added.