The context of saying "Biden" then "congressmen" right next to "senators" indicates to me he was talking about U.S. and not state. It would have been really easy to avoid this confusion right up front by saying something like, "... at both the U.S. and State government levels" if he had actually made the connection that 109 is an impossible number without providing additional clarification.
Yea. I assumed state senators in the mix.
The context of saying "Biden" then "congressmen" right next to "senators" indicates to me he was talking about U.S. and not state. It would have been really easy to avoid this confusion right up front by saying something like, "... at both the U.S. and State government levels" if he had actually made the connection that 109 is an impossible number without providing additional clarification.