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Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Speech Strikes a Chord at Home

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Democrats say the historic display was the jolt of energy their base needed, acknowledging that it’s what voters want to see from their party.
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“It’s an amazing physical feat, absolutely,” said Dr. Santina Wheat, a family medicine doctor at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Illinois.
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He focused on the negative impacts of the Trump Administration’s policies.
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