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Booker, who unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2020, began his speech on Monday evening by invoking late civil rights activist and Congressman John Lewis's call for Americans to get in "good trouble, necessary trouble".

"What has happened in the last 71 days is a patent demonstration of a time where John Lewis's call to everyone has, I think, become more urgent and more pressing," said Booker, a former mayor of Newark who was first elected to the Senate in 2013.