![]() But I did get the opportunity to speak on behalf of an actual member of the United States Congress, which was really cool and a really unique experience. So I got to write letters to constituents I got to answer a whole lot of constituent phone calls, which I’m sure you can imagine are interesting at times. For one of the members of Congress I did a lot of social media work, and for the other I did a lot of policy-based work. TV: And you got to do some work on that during your internships? JR: So for me, my big issues are foreign policy, defense policy, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. TV: What sort of issues were you working on? Eventually that worked its way into becoming an intern on Capitol Hill, which I just finished up four months in D.C. Then came just general political activism - working on the campaigns I worked on, the Beto O’Rourke campaign, Ben McAdams, Harley Rouda, Katie Hill, Katie Porter. So that was when the idea for “News in a Rush,” my weekly news show, started. After what we all know happened in 2016 happened, I realized that I needed to actually get involved and make my voice on it heard. So it became a passing interest for quite a while, and then after the 2016 election and in the run-up to the 2016 election I got even more involved. I had never really taken an interest in voting and politics and what not - that’s adult stuff, you know? And in that moment I realized, no, this is something really cool that I really like and am really interested by. It was two in the morning the race had already been called, and it was me, Wolf Blitzer, a pint of ice cream, and my laptop open showing the election results. It was election night of 2012, and I watched the election coverage on CNN. Josh Rush: There’s been a couple, but I remember the first one incredibly vividly.
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