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Video: Partisan Primaries Are Our Primary Problem

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Created: 19 May, 2021
Updated: 14 August, 2022

Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from The Fulcrum.

Nick Troiano, executive director of Unite America, was recently featured on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" to discuss his piece in The Atlantic: "Party Primaries Must Go."

Troiano argues that a small minority of Americans decide the majority of our elections and the situation needs to change moving forward to ensure a healthy democracy.

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