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The WallBuilders Show

Primary Power For Independent Voters

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

You can care about principles and still care about strategy, because the rules of the system decide whether your voice gets heard. We start with a listener stuck in a closed-primary state as an independent and walk through the hard tradeoff: stay unaffiliated and lose primary access, or register with a party so you get two meaningful chances to influence the outcome. Along the way, we explain open primaries vs closed primaries, why crossover voting happens, and how to think about party regist...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture.

0:09.0

Thanks for joining us on the Wall Builders show on a Thursday.

0:11.4

Of course, we're around here at Wall Builders.

0:12.5

That means it's Foundations of Freedom Thursday.

0:15.0

That means we're taking questions from our audience on foundational principles.

0:18.7

And that can be broad.

0:19.6

It can be something about the Constitution.

0:21.4

It might be an issue going through Congress right now or even in your state legislature or in your

0:25.7

community. Send those into us at Radio at Walbolders.com. Radio at wallboulders.com for an answer that

0:32.3

will be a biblical, historical, and constitutional response. That's how we approach everything here

0:37.1

at Walpilers. I'm Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton. And guys how we approach everything here at Walbulers.

0:38.0

I'm Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton. And guys, we'll just jump right in.

0:41.8

Jeffrey Gardner's got the first question. He said, listening to your show and you say,

0:46.4

go out and vote in your primary. I live in Pennsylvania and I'm registered as an independent,

0:50.9

and independents are not allowed to vote in the primary. My question is, how would I be able to vote when I'm not allowed?

0:57.7

Great question, guys.

0:59.1

So not all states have a closed primary.

1:01.8

I'm kind of becoming a fan of that with the way I've seen so many crossovers,

1:05.3

especially in local races.

1:06.4

But I guess, yeah, how do we advise people on this?

1:10.6

Well, if you're from Pennsylvania, I think the easiest option is just go to New York and pick up a ballot. They're not checking IDs, so you're going to vote in the primary. Unless you're shoveling snow. Yeah. Well, yeah, then you need two IDs and social security number. But to vote, I mean, there's a lot of states that you just show up. It's fine. They can't ask you. Just take a road trip. What you're saying is go on vacation and then vote in whatever state you happen to be in. Okay, people, we're being, we're choking here. Yeah, as long as you're vacationing in a blue state, that would work. But then the options in your primary might not be great either. So it's a challenge.

1:45.5

I guess you just need to pick, right? And go ahead and register in one of the two parties.

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