After breaking the Senate record for longest floor speech, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., gave an innocuous answer about whether he sees himself as the Democratic Party’s next leader.

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,