The Primary Trap: Why America Keeps Getting Bad Candidates | Freedom Friday
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Text the show! America keeps asking why we end up with such terrible choices in November. But what if the problem isn't the candidates? What if it's the system that picks them? On this Freedom Friday, Chad Law takes on America's broken primary system — the closed-door process that excludes independent voters, rewards ideological purity, burns through campaign money, and produces candidates who spend the spring dividing voters before begging those same voters to unite in November. The primary...
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