A posthumous message on bipartisanship: 'There's value in people you don't agree with' [politico.com]

Porter Jennings-McGarity 8/27/214:00 AM

By Kelly Hooper, Politico, August 22, 2021

In a CNN interview conducted shortly before he died, former Michigan Rep. Paul Mitchell stressed the importance of bipartisanship in today’s politics and learning to accept and find value in people with differing views.

“For me it's innate to just say where can we agree? There's value in people you don't agree with.” Mitchell said in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper that aired Sunday.

Mitchell, who died Aug. 16 at the age of 64 after a battle with renal cancer, announced his retirement from Congress in July 2019, and then disaffiliated with the Republican Party in 2020 amid former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud.

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