Senator Cory Booker altered his diet and hydration regimen, going days without food and water during an extraordinary 25-hour filibuster. This record-setting speech served as a protest against President Donald Trump and challenged a longstanding Senate record held by Strom Thurmond, who had previously used his filibuster to obstruct civil rights advancements. While acknowledging both the physical toll from dehydration and the symbolic importance of overcoming Thurmond's record, Booker felt compelled to assert his narrative and represent marginalized voices in the Senate.
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.
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.
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