Cory Booker posts personal record fundraising haul after marathon speech

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N

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.

The fundraising haul includes more than $9 million directly to his Senate campaign and several hundred thousand dollars more to his joint fundraising committee, known as the Booker Victory Fund, according to a Booker aide.

More than 200,000 unique donors gave to Booker's political operation in the second quarter, with the vast majority contributing $25 or less. He ended June with $19.6 million on hand.