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The New Jersey senator spent much of his speech, which ended after more than 25 hours, assailing the Trump administration. He eclipsed Strom Thurmond’s filibuster of a civil rights bill in 1957.

Amid the buzz around Booker's record-breaking speech, some social media users have rediscovered an unexpected fact—Cory Booker is actually the DNA cousin of legendary drag performer and television host RuPaul.

As he neared 24 hours of standing on the Senate floor speaking, Sen. Cory Booker held up his pocket Constitution Tuesday, his voice only slightly more strained than when he’d started. “I keep going back to how this document is being undermined and attacked by this president,

WASHINGTON — Sen. Cory Booker set the record for the longest speech in Senate history Tuesday night in marathon remarks that began the evening of Monday, March 31, and tore into what he called the Trump administration’s “grave and urgent” threat to the country.

After Sen. Cory Booker made history for the longest individual Senate speech delivered in the chamber, he told reporters he was sore and battling dehydration but grateful that he’d lasted as long as he did.

A TikToker who goes by alexmarsolais on the social media platform shared in a now-viral video on Wednesday that Booker is related to none other than RuPaul, a legendary drag queen who revolutionized drag culture with his reality show, " RuPaul's Drag Race ."

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey held the Senate floor for 25 hours and five minutes on Tuesday, taking aim at President Donald Trump’s policies.

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,