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 placid and franklin roosevel 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 one in pennsylvania, a very difficult state for democrats to win, as is arizona and georgia but, democratic senate candidates won in those states to 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 thi
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
us involved in world war ii or who wanted us to be fighting o the other side and when i got into th sedition trial stuff and realized what had gone on with this nazi agent operating in congress, i realized i had t tell that story before i did anything else. let s go to erica griffith. she says, what was the most fu thing you did, learned, most surprising thing, most valuabl take away, and before yo answer that, any one of thos questions, rachel, i need to give you the final note of her tweet. also, i miss you nightly and h from new zealand, please visit and do a talk! i would love to come to new zealand. i have no plans to do so but if i m going to new zealand, i m probably fishing before do anything else that is very nice most fun, most interesting biggest take away a lot of it, i mean, it is obviously dark stuff it is hard to say that it wa fun.
it is hard to say that it wa fun. but tracing these folks in the world and finding where they ended up and part of i think the reason why this is a forgotten story is that th political cost that was paid b a lot of people who were involved with this nazi in congress is that they got vote out of office and they died in obscurity. that was their accountabilit for being involved in th stuff. therefore, rediscovering the out of xfinity means - it s like you are meeting holy people the senator who opens up episode one of the podcast senator earnest nobody remember that he existe at all so it was like finding a new character in fiction, who ha this whole backstory, this amazing wife in this incredibl story after his death that all emerged that told what he ha been doing before he died. and so, that sort of pleasur of discovery i think was mor than you usually get out of history project. because so many of the peopl