Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast, I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics.

I'm Claudine Gideysa, I look like cover congress, and I'm Mara Liesen, National Political

correspondent.

And as we close out 2022, the podcast team decided there was no better way to end it than

an entire episode devoted to the things we just couldn't stop talking about this year,

politics or otherwise.

Yes, can't let it go is usually how we end the show each week, so this is a very special

episode.

And we're going to start with the things in politics we couldn't let go of and then move

on to the otherwise.

And we're going to hear from a lot more of our podcast friends than we normally do, so

buckle up.

And who better to start us off with what they couldn't let go in politics than Mara Liesen?

Mara, what could you not let go of this year?

I couldn't let go of whatever happened to election denialism.

I guess I call this honey, they shrunk the election denial.

Basically, I don't want to make light of something that is a real threat to our democracy,

because election denial at its heart is refusing to accept the results of any election as legitimate

unless you're the winner.

So it definitely erodes people's faith in free and fair elections, but what I thought

was really interesting this year is a lot of election deniers ran, a lot of them lost,

but more important, most of the ones who lost, conceded.

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