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Mark Pocan: “With Fusion, you guys have broken into it and you allow…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Mark Pocan Discusses Progressive Politics and Fusion Voting with Working Families Party Leader

Published | Video Starts at 10:00

You know, I've tried to explain this sometimes to folks. I mean, we're a two party system in many ways here. It's very hard to break into it. But With Fusion, you guys have broken into it and you allow people who are more progressive to be able to really say, these are the values I'm voting for with this candidate. And I hope that these are the values they enact as opposed to maybe the values that just raise a lot of money from pharmaceutical companies like that. Right. (10:00–10:10)

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Asserts that Fusion voting allows progressive voters to express their values through their choice of candidates.

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