Sinema: Politicians conform to party lines to belong, not from coercion
Kyrsten Sinema · Senator Kyrsten Sinema | All-In Summit 2024 · Sep 24, 2024 · at 14:06
Former U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema provides insider perspective on why members of Congress rarely break rank with party leadership.
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“Most people want to do the party line thing. It's not like they're sitting around going like, oh, I really don't want to vote this way, but I really feel like I have to save my career. There's this thing about being part of the club. People want to be part of the club. And so it's not like the thumb is, you know, being pushed down on lots of people to get them to do a certain thing. They're doing it because they're part of the club.”
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