Cory Booker posts personal record fundraising haul after marathon speech
Source: NBC News
July 10, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT / Updated July 10, 2025, 1:48 PM EDT
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., raked in millions of dollars in campaign funds during the second fundraising quarter, his biggest haul ever, after his marathon speech on the Senate floor.
Booker’s Senate campaign and an affiliated joint fundraising committee raised $10 million from April through June, according to fundraising figures shared first with NBC News. It's the most money Booker has ever raised in a single quarter, including when he was running for president in 2019.
That fundraising period includes the aftermath of Booker’s marathon speech on the Senate floor. He called President Donald Trump's administration a “grave and urgent” threat in a speech lasting 25 hours, five minutes, breaking a Senate record on April 1 and helping energize Democrats who had been demoralized by a 2024 presidential campaign loss and the first few months of Trump’s second term.
Booker's campaign noted the vast majority of his donors gave $25 or less, which Booker also touted on Thursday. “These are really tough times and I feel very blessed that our average donation is pretty small," Booker told NBC News at the Capitol. "We’re one of the handful of senators that don’t take corporate donations, don’t take big PAC donations. And I’ve really taken that anti-Citizens United pledge. So I think people recognize there’s an urgency to give those small-dollar contributions, especially in states like mine, where Trump so over-performed."
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It's not about the money, it's about him standing up for what's right and getting rewarded for his efforts. Democrats all across the country, as well as his home state of New Jersey, were very grateful and let him know.
