Democrats longing to ramp up their fight against President Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress have found a standard-bearer in Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). The 55-year-old senator and one-time presidential candidate’s marathon speech on the Senate floor this week,

Sen. Cory Booker's (D-N.J.) marathon speech on the Senate floor won the floundering Democratic Party something it has desperately needed in the Trump era: attention and the applause of its base. The big picture: Top Democrats believe they are in their deepest hole in nearly 50 years after losing the White House,

The New Jersey Democrat held the Senate floor for over 25 hours, toppling a record set decades ago by segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond.