For a day, at least, Democrats across the country have a sense that their comeback against President Donald Trump may have begun.It wasn't just about the election results in Wisconsin, where Democratic-backed Judge Susan Crawford won a 10-point victory against Trump and Elon Musk's favored candidate for the state Supreme Court.
Longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz was so impressed by the record-breaking speech by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) this week that he thinks the Democratic Party may have a new leader in its midst. “I want to emphasize what Cory Booker did over the last 24 hours may have changed the course of political history,
As Cory Booker spoke on the Senate floor through Monday night and into Tuesday morning - an 18-hour address (not quite a filibuster, as no bill or nominee was being debated) attacking President Trump and Elon Musk's gutting of federal programs like Medicaid and Social Security - it evoked memories of another epic legislative speech: Patton Oswalt's Star Wars filibuster.