'Everybody should be able to participate’: Advocate for open primaries

As midterms approach, advocates of election reform warn Congress could soon become more polarized. John Opdycke, Founder and President of Open Primaries, joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss how closed, single-party primaries exclude independent voters and could feed polarization in U.S. politics.

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