You can lose your primary not because of your position on immigration or abortion or gay marriage or whatever. You can lose it because you're viewed as not sufficiently hostile to the other side. You can lose your primary...because you're viewed as reasonable. And our whole system is based upon people compromising and making deals. If you can lose your seat by merely talking to the other side, imagine what that does to the process. (31:14–31:35)
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Asserts that candidates can lose primaries for being perceived as too moderate.
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