, welcome to a Holiday Edition of the last word. 1934 congressional elections, because 2022 was the First Time Since 1934 that 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 Senator Running for ev election get reelected. President biden saw the same thing this year. And the democrats added a seat to their control of the senate 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 to. From my race in arizona, i had wide support by republicans. Republican mares and county supervisors, business leaders, law enforcement. You know, theyve come up to me frequently. But also, endorsed me. Republican mayors. Because, you know, theyre tired of what theyve seen over the last, well, six years now. And they just want to get things done, and you know, they jus
, welcome to a holiday edition of the last word. 1934 congressional elections, because 2022 was the first time since 1934 that 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 senator running for ev election get reelected. president biden saw the same thing this year. and the democrats added a seat to their control of the senate 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 to. from my race in arizona, i had wide support by republicans. republican mares and county supervisors, business leaders, law enforcement. you know, they ve come up to me frequently. but also, endorsed me. republican mayors. because, you know, they re tired of what they ve seen over the last, well, six years now. and they just want to get things done, an
something about hollywood. this is the most sought after movie rights package in the history of podcasting. we will no doubt be hearing about this at any moment. rachel, talk about their other questions in here about a book. why a podcast? how about that. because there may be other things that happened after it. but why a podcast? part of the reason why is because i think some of the audio that we found is amazing. a bunch of people have asked me, where did you find these actors to do these great 1940s accents? there is no actors in it! all of the audio, all of the tape is all original and authentic to the time. and so, focusing on that, people were getting the news through the radio. these are all radio broadcasts that we used in the clip. and, so doing that in the podcast environment just felt real and direct and connected. but there is definitely going to be a book about it.
long enough for the question. rachel maddow, here it is. it s a great question. alan says, how is the america first movement and its plots impacted by the u.s. entry into world war ii, was our massive mobilization against germany central to sniffing out this right wing extremism? with something of similar scale be required next time? that is a very interesting question. it kind of cuts both ways, i think in the history. the investigations that are the whole basis for the whole podcast started before the u. s. got into world war ii. then the actual grades to addition trial that is the basis for the back half of the podcast, it takes place starting in 1944. during most of 1944, which point we are deep into the war. part of the way that they
senator ernest laden, nobody remembered that he existed at all, so is like finding a new character in fiction why this whole back story in this amazing life in this incredible story after his death that emerged, after he died the told what he s doing before he died. it was that pleasure of discovery that was more than what you usually get out of a history project, because so many of the people involved here, who are powerful members of congress and powerful senators, did get flicked off the page of history, because they were, or they were involved in outsees. and that was right that they made him obscure, but it made the more fun to discover. this is rachel maddow doing a podcast, killer s funding, his rachel maddow is fun. you had some real fun with senator london s wife and her hats. she s also a dark character if you give her a second thought. there is fun around this thing. this question, there s a lot of