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
melissa murray in for mehd hassan for nearly half a century it was an obvious, clear norm if you wanted to be th president of the united states you had to show the american public where your money came from it was a norm that began amazingly, with richard nixo during the watergate scandal i 1973, when nixon released hi tax returns to fight off accusations of corruption. in fact, it was nixon s ta filings sparked one of the mos famous quotes in america politics i look on this kind o examination because people hav got to know whether or not their president as a crook, am not a crook, i have earne everything i have got. since then, every america president has released their tax returns or a summary o their taxes. well, all but one. and, you know which one. and you know why, or, at least his explanation of why i will absolutely give my return but i am being audite for two or three years, so, cannot do it until the audit i finished, obviously. it is under, i i will revisit
campaigns, and the busines model was different fox. but the business model over th years was slowly changed and so fox actually doesn actually need advertisers. in fact, about 90% of th resources have been throug cable subscriptions. and what ends up happening i they negotiate a much higher sort of iffy - carriage fees. so what ends up happening is w getting twice as much, basically, as this network another network, competitors so basically all of us a consumers, whether we watch fo or not, i subsidizing tucker carlson. so the question is, for cabl providers, is that we should n longer allow them to continu to allow fox have to have thes high rates we re running a campaign right now to actually focus on that, focus on the verizon s and at& is of the world, we cabl providers that are actuall
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the number of republicans in your cable run unopposed they are claim to thei positions, because people don even run against them, because i don t know, to do you thin it s a lost cause? there were not gonna win against republicans? and can this set of events hav an influence on that kind of thing, i mean no one should be running unopposed in america right, well i certainly hop so you know, the problem in tennessee is not only that w have gerrymandered districts we have a lot of voter suppression laws passed in recent years, that is why we say we re not a red state, w do suffer from those two ailments in the state of tennessee. but you know, we need th resources. we have 99 house districts, 75 of those are republican, unfortunately. but we have got to get the resources, and the man power i the state of tennessee so worst-case scenario, al this national tension an smollett has finally brought some attention to tennessee an what we really need, and w really need help from outsid of the