, 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
something about hollywood. this is the most sought after movie rights package in the history of podcasting. we will no doubt be hearing about this at any moment. rachel, talk about their other questions in here about a book. why a podcast? how about that. because there may be other things that happened after it. but why a podcast? part of the reason why is because i think some of the audio that we found is amazing. a bunch of people have asked me, where did you find these actors to do these great 1940s accents? there is no actors in it! all of the audio, all of the tape is all original and authentic to the time. and so, focusing on that, people were getting the news through the radio. these are all radio broadcasts that we used in the clip. and, so doing that in the podcast environment just felt real and direct and connected. but there is definitely going to be a book about it.
of the audio we found is amazing. a bunch of people of asked, where did you find these actors to do these great 1940s accents? there s no actors in it. all of the audio, all of the tape is all original and authentic to the time. so focusing on that, people were getting their news in the radio, these are all radio broadcasts that were used. so doing that in the podcast environment just felt real and direct and connected. but there is definitely going to be a book about it which i m already working on. the book environment lets me not only tell these stories in a way that i was able to in the podcast but let s be follow some of these plots further along in time and tell you sort of in more detail in chapter based versions of some of these things came together. so the book will be more intensive version of this but i m digging into that as well. so anyone, if you are allen lifers and you are watching, this is your night.
so focusing on that, people were getting their news in the radio, these are all radio broadcasts that were used. so doing that in the podcast environment just felt real and direct and connected. but there is definitely going to be a book about it which i m already working on. the book environment lets me not only tell these stories in a way that i was able to in the podcast but let s be follow some of these plots further along in time and tell you sort of in more detail in chapter based versions of some of these things came together. so the book will be more intensive version of this but i m digging into that as well. so anyone, if you are allen lifers and you are watching, this is your night. if you know allen lifers, call him right now because after this break, the first question to rachael maddow is going to be from alan lovers. and it s a great question. it s exactly one of the things that i was wondering about, and