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Jake Auchincloss: “It's going to be on the ballot in Massachusetts in 2026…”

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 50:11

Can you get members of your party to stop looking at Twitter so much and thinking that that's where real public opinion is? So the short answer is there absolutely is an electoral fix for this. In fact, It's going to be on the ballot in Massachusetts in 2026. It's an all party primary. It's how Boston elects its mayor, for example, which is to say the top two candidates who get through a preliminary go to the general, whether they be Democrats or Republicans or independents or one of each. (50:11–50:16)

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Asserts that an all-party primary will be on the Massachusetts ballot in 2026.

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