"What is the Primary Problem?"

An episode of the American Enterprise Institute's "Understanding Congress" podcast asks, "What is the Primary Problem?" featuring Nick Troiano. He is the author of The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes (Simon & Schuster, 2024). and the executive director of Unite America, an organization that advocates for nonpartisan election reform and alternatives to partisan primary elections.

Nick says, "Every voter should have the freedom to vote for whomever they want if their tax dollars are paying for the ballots. So I think at the end of the day, we have to disentangle both of these core functions of first round elections and distinguish between what is in the interest of the political parties and then also what is in the interest of our democracy."