, 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
raising far more money than their campaigns. our politics is different from this. ours are heavily funded campaigns and building out, so the outside groups, you know, spend in addition to the strong campaigns. in some of these house races, we had six to 7 to 1 cash in hand advantages over the republicans. in the senate races, we outspent them two, 3 to 1, right? by not having strong candidate campaigns, that means they can t do the stuff on the ground. the outside groups and the media can t do the ground stuff that we do. and so, we have a better system. and what s happened, the big change, lawrence, since we ve been in this business, is the amount of money that the grassroots democrats are giving our candidates. they re making our campaigns muscular, stronger, and better, and more effective. the republicans are not gonna be able to make up that ground in the next two years. and so, as i look to 2024, i would much rather be asked than them. i mean, not only do we strengthen ourselves i
electorate, which are the ones that decide national elections, and certainly swing state elections, they just weren t having it. and then, of course, there s donald trump s breathtakingly stupid idea that no republican should ever vote before election day. we ve gotta find a way to get our people out earlier. we have got to do a better job as republicans of selling to our voters, go vote early. don t wait to the last day. don t wait till possibly rain, don t wait for bad weather. again, we ve gotten hammered, early vote. you just look. we got hammered. joining us now, the strategist who hammered the republicans in every state won by the democrats. gary peters of michigan, he s the head of the democratic senatorial campaign committee. thank you very much for joining us once again, senator. i have to say, i ve watched people do this job, the
the economy is gonna be strong, we re gonna see the fruits of the investments that we made in chips, infrastructure and the climate bill, and republicans, i think, are gonna have a very difficult time shaking their connection to maga. i mean, just seeing it in the last few weeks, and what it means for them is that we re gonna be even stronger, probably, in 2024 than we were in 2020. and they re gonna have three consecutive elections now where people haven t voted for them because they re too crazy. so there s gonna be that muscle memory of, well, have they really changed? and i think there s gonna be a very high bar for many voters to believe that somehow, this isn t the very same old maga party they voted against in the last three elections. simon rosenberg, thank you very much for sharing your campaign wisdom with us. i am always guided by it. you are the guiding light for me getting through campaigns. lawrence, thank you, thanks for all that you re doing. it s been a crazy year