Former U.S. Senator Robert Torricelli (D) sits down with Steve Adubato for a conversation about the growing popularity of fusion voting and why our nation needs more political options. Recorded 6/20/23

Steve Adubato asks Senator Torricelli why he believes America needs a third political party. Torricelli says, “I think a lot about my 20 years in the Congress,the years before that in the White House, and what I saw and what I learned, the current state of affairs, and it’s led me to a few strongly held beliefs. One, is that despite the rancor in American politics, the debate is awfully stale. There are ideas expressed but very few new ideas, very few new points of opinion, and no new interests. It’s the same interests with the same arguments back and forth, and one way that you deal with that is if it may be a third party, if not a third party, fusion voting. There are times, believe it or not, against all evidence, that the Republicans can have the best candidate. It can happen, and I would like to be able to vote for that person without voting for a Republican. As there are people who would vote for a good Democratic candidate, without necessarily voting for the party.