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Tom Suozzi: “It's bad for America to have all these safe seats where no…”

Featuring: Tom Suozzi, Democratic | U.S. House New York, District 3

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Face the Nation: Fitzpatrick, Suozzi and Gates

Published | Video Starts at 02:59

The Democrats are going to fight the Republicans, the Republicans are going to fight the Democrats. It's bad for America. It's bad for America to have all these safe seats where no politician is incentivized to listen to people and to reach across the aisle. So I misspoke. It's 45 members in your caucus, more than a dozen of them may be directly impacted. But still, I take your broader point here that it's damaging to the ability to work cross aisle. (02:59–03:09)

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Asserts that safe seats from gerrymandering discourage politicians from bipartisan cooperation.

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