the 2022 congressional elections take their place i the history books right afte the 1934 congressional elections, because 2022 was th first time since 1934 that a first term president saw every senator in his party reelected every senator who is running in 1934, first term democratic president franklin roosevelt sought every democratic senato running for election get reelected. president biden saw the same thing this year. and the democrats added a seat for their control of the senat when john fetterman won in pennsylvania, a very difficult state for democrats to win, as is arizona and georgia but, democratic senate candidates won in those states too. for my race in arizona, i had support by republicans republican mayors and county supervisors, business leaders, law enforcement. you know, they ve come up to m frequently but also endorsed me republican mayors. because, you know, they re tired of what they ve seen ove the last, well, six years now. and they just want to ge t
spend in addition to the stron campaigns. in some of these house races we had six to 7 to 1 cash an hand advantages over the republicans. and the senate races, we outspent them two, 3 to 1, right? by not having strong candidate campaigns, that means they can t do the stuff on th ground the outside groups and the media can t do the ground stuf that we do and so, we have a better system and what s happened, the big change, lawrence, since we v been in this business, is th amount of money that the grassroots democrats are givin our candidates they re making our campaigns muscular, stronger, and better and more effective the republicans are not gonn be able to make up that ground in the next two years. and so, as i look to 2024, i would much rather be asked tha them i mean, not only do we strengthen ourselves in th battleground, we have tactical advantages, but joe biden, assuming he runs for reelection, the economy is gonna be strong we re gonna see the fruits o the investments that we ma