Nations 12th Annual Revvie Awards its where we celebrate the best and worst of politics in 2022 and give awards to those who deserve it im honored to have been bringing you some of the most significant and memorable moments this past year and what a year it has been. With that lets bring in our esteemed Panel Republican strategist and msnbc political analyst susan del pressio. Danielle moody, host of the woke a. F. Daily and democracyish podcasts and ali velshi, host of velshi right here on msnbc. This year was dominated by the Midterm Elections. With that in mind lets get right to our first revvie. The biggest political showdowns. Ill share a few of my own nominees to get us started then the panel can chime in. The first is the Senate Showdown in pennsylvania between John Fetterman and dr. Oz oz won the republican nomination based on fame, and he got dispensed dispensing medical advice on tv but it was fettermans health that was the big concern after he suffered a stroke during a camp
nation s 12th annual revvie awards it s where we celebrate the best and worst of politics in 2022 and give awards to those who deserve it i m honored to have been bringing you some of the most significant and memorable moments this past year and what a year it has been. with that let s bring in our esteemed panel republican strategist and msnbc political analyst susan del pressio. danielle moody, host of the woke a.f. daily and democracy-ish podcasts and ali velshi, host of velshi right here on msnbc. this year was dominated by the midterm elections. with that in mind let s get right to our first revvie. the biggest political showdowns. i ll share a few of my own nominees to get us started then the panel can chime in. the first is the senate showdown in pennsylvania between john fetterman and dr. oz oz won the republican nomination based on fame, and he got dispensed dispensing medical advice on tv but it was fetterman s health that was the big concern after he suffered
tailored to the issue of abortion, justice thomas penned a concurring opinion suggesting gay marriage, birth control, and even same-sexual relations could be on the chopping block the backlash to the dobbs decision proved to be a major factor in republicans disappointing showing in the midterms susan, let us get going. the heels. absolutely. clarence thomas was a heel that s for sure. but he wasn t alone. whereas i think donald trump really alone, on his self is responsible for hurting the republican party in ways that it will take almost a generation to come back from and when you look at donald trump talking about 2022, he never talked about it. rev, he went to all these campaign rallies he wasn t like barack obama getting into it, doing turnout for candidates he went there and talked about 2020 and himself it was all about donald.
continuation of social justice movements. but most was the midterms. people said, i can hold two thoughts i m worried about inflation, but also worry about democracy. we can go into 2023 saying, we can discuss the bigger issues as well as the smaller ones that affect you day-to-day. danielle? i have to agree i m always ye of little hope i always say i carry around a mustard seed of hope but i believe more people in this country, more americans have become conscious of the citizenry, have become responsible in understanding that their votes matter, right their voices matter and that they need to show up, and when they do, they can hold people s feet to the fire we were bracing ourselves for amidterms that would be disastrous and it wasn t why wasn t it? because people show up they realized politics does
ali i think we ve had a lot of time to talk about barack obama and how mesmerizing he is in a room, and we will still have more feels like 2022 is a great moment for nancy pelosi to remember a very basic thing. you know, i m an economics guy nancy pelosi could count she used a calculator. she didn t bring a vote to the floor that she was going to lose she knew what she had to do to keep her caucus together, and what she allowed, the dissidents in her caucus to do was be dissidents she allowed them to say i get it, that you don t want to support this, i ll find a couple other people, we ll delay the vote until we get it she was masterful at her craft as much as she was great when she came out to a podium and she had witty things to say, that s not where her work was right she was like we talked about katie hobbs, like we talk about so many other, like we re going to talk about hakeem jeffejeffe, people who just do their work. nancy pelosi first did her work, talked about it late