Former President Joe Biden&#8217;s longtime communications director, Kate Bedingfield, tossed cold water on Senator Cory Booker&#8217;s (D-NJ) marathon speech on Tuesday, saying that it was unlikely to move the needle with regard to business as usual at the Capitol.
Bedingfield weighed in on Booker&#8217;s lengthy address — which, at 25 hours and five minutes, was the longest in U.S. Senate history — during an appearance on CNN shortly after the New Jersey senator passed the 24-hour mark, and she argued that the overall impact of the stunt was likely to be minimal at best.
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Former Biden Comms Director Kate Bedingfield on Democrat Senator Booker&#39;s speech:
&quot;It may have a tangible impact on Senator Booker, but it won&#39;t have a tangible impact on business in Washington.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/djdAM8CUtb">pic.twitter.com/djdAM8CUtb</a>
&mdash; Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) <a href="https://twitter.com/WarMachineRR/status/1907216643761033471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
Bedingfield gave the good news first, saying that she believed Booker&#8217;s lengthy diatribe might actually pull some weight with the Democratic base and with donors, whom she said were simply waiting for someone within the party to show &#8220;signs of life.&#8221;
&#8220;The Democratic base, and Democratic donors, are looking for signs of life,&#8221; Bedingfield said. &#8220;And so what I think Senator Booker is giving them here are — some signs of life. Is it going to have a tangible impact on business in Washington? No, it&#8217;s not.&#8221;
&#8220;It may have a tangible impact on Senator Booker, but it won&#8217;t have a tangible impact on business in Washington,&#8221; Bedingfield repeated, laughing.
Bedingfield was far from the only one to mock Booker in the aftermath of his so-called &#8220;filibuster.&#8221;
Technically, Booker didn’t actually filibuster. There was no legislation under consideration for him to oppose, so he was just giving a floor speech — a record-breaking floor speech, sure, but not a filibuster. Still, that hasn’t stopped Democrats from celebrating Booker’s “filibuster,” a far cry from their condemnations of the tool.
The Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro noted, &#8220;Congrats on your official entry into the Guinness Book of World Records.&#8221;
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Congrats on your official entry into the Guinness Book of World Records <a href="https://t.co/fxnM702VGa">https://t.co/fxnM702VGa</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1907403810374389972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;They went on for YEARS about how the filibuster was a relic of our racist past and tool of minority rule and an assault on democracy,&#8221; David Harsanyi posted. &#8220;Shameless.&#8221;
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They went on for YEARS about how the filibuster was a relic of our racist past and tool of minority rule and an assault on democracy. Shameless. <a href="https://t.co/5r2ODobQGe">https://t.co/5r2ODobQGe</a>
&mdash; David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1907227940607140295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
Rebeccah Heinrichs from the Hudson Institute called it &#8220;The silliest participation trophy in U.S. history.&#8221;
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The silliest participation trophy in U.S. history. <a href="https://t.co/zKCTzCDNWU">https://t.co/zKCTzCDNWU</a>
&mdash; Rebeccah Heinrichs (@RLHeinrichs) <a href="https://twitter.com/RLHeinrichs/status/1907268304814649719?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://t.co/doDRYhlcB6">https://t.co/doDRYhlcB6</a> <a href="https://t.co/70gGgQyLvu">pic.twitter.com/70gGgQyLvu</a>
&mdash; Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1907217503492649218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;He virtue signaled for 24 hours without actually accomplishing anything. Great illustration of the modern Democrat party,&#8221; Republican communications specialist Abigail Jackson posted.
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He virtue signaled for 24 hours without actually accomplishing anything. Great illustration of the modern Democrat party. <a href="https://t.co/NCKDtPmIr1">https://t.co/NCKDtPmIr1</a>
&mdash; Abigail Jackson 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) <a href="https://twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1907225960304230891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;&#8216;And so he spoketh, and yea, though no legislation was to be voted on, and though they once proclaimed such things an abomination, they did pretend it was a filibuster. And yea, the man who once was Spartacus became like Strom.&#8217; — Booker 24:19,&#8221; Christopher Scalia from the American Enterprise Institute added.
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“And so he spoketh, and yea, though no legislation was to be voted on, and though they once proclaimed such things an abomination, they did pretend it was a filibuster. And yea, the man who once was Spartacus became like Strom.” &#8211; Booker 24:19 <a href="https://t.co/pbyqbbRhxw">https://t.co/pbyqbbRhxw</a>
&mdash; Christopher J. Scalia (@cjscalia) <a href="https://twitter.com/cjscalia/status/1907260581712724143?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2025</a></blockquote>

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