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
everyone can say now, they v never seen anyone do a bette job of it. when did you know that this wa gonna be the outcome well, lawrence, i was actually very confident righ from the get-go. we have to realize we woul have to do a lot of work we have to be disciplined. we have to be focused. but as we went into th campaign, i thought we re in states that joe biden had won, you know, they ma have been close races, but h had won. we had outstanding camp visits our incumbents were people hav incredible character they ve had a record of gettin things done. we have to get the candidate running and open seats so i felt that and then when we looked at who is emerging out of the republican primaries, basicall trump anointed candidates, and the fact that there were s extreme and had such deep flaws, i felt very good about thi contest. but on the other hand, i als knew we d have to run really good campaigns, and all of our candidates clearly did because as you know, you can still be a flawed c
democratic senate campaign and i ve never - everyone can say no, they ve never seen anyone do a bette job of it. when did you know that this wa gonna be the outcome well, lawrence, i was actually very confident righ from the get-go. we have to realize we woul have to do a lot of work we have to be disciplined. we have to be focused. but as we went into th campaign, i thought states that joe biden had won, you know, they may have been close races, but he had one. we had outstanding camp visits our incumbents where peopl have incredible character. they ve had a record of gettin things done. we have to get the candidate running and open seats so i felt that and then when we looked at who is emerging out of the republican primaries, basicall trump anointed candidates, and the fact that there were s extreme and had such deep flaws, i felt very good about thi contest. but on the other hand, i als knew we d have to run really good campaigns, and all of our candidates clearly did because a