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Jake Auchincloss: “200 of their 220 [Republican] members of Congress worry…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Jeffrey Goldberg, Meghna Chakrabarti, and Rep. Jake Auchincloss in Boston on America at 250

Published | Video Starts at 42:36

And, and he has salience in the Republican Party in a way that we. We haven't seen in modern. In modern times. I think that when you are locked as they are into a primary system, 200 of their 220 [Republican] members of Congress worry about their primary, not about their general election. Same for us, by the way, on the Democratic side, when you are locked in these algorithmic echo chambers of social media, when things have been gerrymandered so badly that … (42:36–42:41)

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Asserts that most Republican members of Congress are more concerned about primary elections than general elections.

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