'Fasted for days': Cory Booker didn't eat or drink ahead of record breaking speech [View all]
Source: Raw Story
April 1, 2025 9:43PM ET
New details about Democratic Sen. Cory Booker’s record-breaking marathon speech are beginning to emerge and reveal how the New Jersey lawmaker was physically able to accomplish the longest floor speech in the history of the United States Senate.
Booker ended his record 25-hour floor speech Tuesday evening after spending a continuous day railing against actions ushered in by President Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk.
"I fasted for days into it, I stopped drinking water a long time ago,” Booker told a group of reporters, according to CNN’s Manu Raju. “I think that had good and bad benefits; I definitely started cramping up from lack of water. So if some of you saw me really drink nothing at the end, that was just trying… to stop my muscles from cramping.”
The Democratic senator estimated that he stopped eating on Friday in preparation for his day-long protest of Trump administration funding cuts and personnel layoffs, Raju reported.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/cory-booker-2671655282/
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Apr 1, 2025
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To answer the question that I’ve heard many people asking, Cory Booker tells a group of us he didn’t have to go to the restroom over 25 hours because he hasn’t eaten since Friday and stopped drinking water Sunday. He said he intentionally dehydrated himself.
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"I fasted for days into it, I stopped drinking water a long time ago. I think that had good and bad benefits; I definitely started cramping up from lack of water. So if some of you saw me really drink nothing at the end, that was just trying… to stop my muscles from cramping.”
8:55 PM · Apr 1, 2025
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