Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Speech ‘May Have Changed the Course of Political History,’ Predicts Republican Pollster

Republican pollster Frank Luntz claimed on Tuesday that Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) 25-hour Senate speech “may have changed the course of political history,” predicting that the senator would be a top contender for president in 2028.

Analyzing the current state of the Democratic Party on NewsNation’s On Balance with Leland Vittert, Luntz argued, “They’re going crazy right now, and they’re going crazy ’cause they don’t see leadership in their own party, and I want to emphasize, what Cory Booker did over the last 24 hours may have changed the course of political history.”

He explained:

I watched a lot of it. I listened to words, I listened to phrases, how he presents himself. Did he criticize Donald Trump? Of course he did. But he struck the kind of tone that grassroots Democrats are looking for. He gave them a reason to fight. He gave them a reason to stand up and say this is my country too. Of course, every Republican watching will say this is nonsense, but he’s not speaking just to Republicans, he’s speaking to Americans, and what I saw over the last 25 hours absolutely blew me away, and just as you sometimes make projections or predictions, I’m gonna do one right here. That speech puts Cory Booker as one of the leaders of the Democratic Party in 2028.”

Luntz concluded, “And I’ll go even further. If you ask Democratic senators right now who they’d rather have lead them over the next three years, they would choose Cory Booker over Chuck Schumer. That’s how significant today was.”

NewsNation host Leland Vittert mocked, “I say this with respect… Wouldn’t my dog beat Chuck Schumer in terms of who Democrats would like to lead them in the Senate?”

Booker broke the record for the longest speech in the Senate on Tuesday, beating Strom Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster of the Civil Rights Act.

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