A lot of work went into Sen. Cory Booker's 25-hour speech that ended Tuesday night on the Senate floor: He brought with him 1,164 pages of prepared material to draw from. The physical preparation was simple: "I think I stopped eating on Friday,

Democrat Cory Booker made headlines after delivering the longest US Senate speech in history earlier in the week. He revealed his preparation, which included fasting for days and dehydrating himself the night before the D-day to avoid taking a bathroom break.

The New Jersey politician revealed how he prepped for the record-breaking 25-hour, 5-minute-long speech as he rushed off the floor Tuesday.

A Booker spokesperson declined to comment on how the senator had prepared for his speech, including whether he's been wearing a catheter or diaper.

N.J., wanted to do something extraordinary. He knew Democratic voters were desperate for it.So he took to the Senate floor with little fanfare and went on to deliver a marathon speech — excoriating the Trump administration for lawlessness and undermining American values and in the process breaking the record for longest Senate speech ever,

The New Jersey senator's Senate floor marathon speech broke a record set 68 years ago by then-Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.

Cory Booker (D-NJ) captured the country’s attention with an extraordinary speech protesting President Trump. Booker’s 25 hours-plus remarks on the Senate floor broke a more than 60-year-old record while earning hundreds of thousands of views and hundreds of millions of likes on social media.

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