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Utah politician leaps from razor-thin loss to landslide win

Season 2018 Episode 429 | 3m 28s

Two years ago, when Dr. Suzanne Harrison ran for a seat in Utah’s House for the first time, she lost by three votes. But in this year’s midterms, she beat out her opponent by nearly 2,000 votes. Harrison joins Hari Sreenivasan to talk about her campaign in a community where people knew from experience that every vote does matter.

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