Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer: 'End partisan primaries, save America'

Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer: 'End partisan primaries, save America'
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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is now embracing a reform movement for party primaries: To get rid of party primaries as we know them, and replace them with the "top two" open primary system.

"The partisan primary system, which favors more ideologically pure candidates, has contributed to the election of more extreme officeholders and increased political polarization," Schumer writes in a column published Monday night at The New York Times. "It has become a menace to governing."

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