But people have this sense that the party is above the candidates, the elected officials that, you know, somehow making the calls and pulling the strings. And the reality is that In the United States, individual people decide if they're going to run for office. and they decide the message that they're going to have, and they raise the money for their campaigns, and often they're the ones raising the money into the party so that the party can help them win elections. (09:32–09:49)
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Asserts that individuals, not parties, decide to run for office in the U.S.
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