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ABC News: Trump resistance groups look beyond Washington for victories
Trump resistance groups look beyond Washington for victories
September 3, 2017
The Virginia House of Delegates. The Arizona attorney general's office. Atlanta City Hall.
Seats of power unaccustomed to intense political attention are the focus of liberal groups as they try to turn the Trump resistance movement into tangible victories.
Long-established organizations such as MoveOn.org to newer outfits like "Our Revolution," the offshoot of Sen. Bernie Sanders' unsuccessful presidential campaign, are backing scores of candidates for down-ballot races in 2017 as a precursor to next year's elections, when Democrats will try to dent the GOP's monopoly in Washington.
They've already picked up some victories.
(snips)
Newly elected Mayor Chokwe Lumumba won in Jackson, Mississippi, promising to make the ciity "the most radical ... on the planet." New York lawmaker Christine Pellegrino, a Sanders delegate in 2016, prevailed in a special election in a state House district President Donald Trump won easily in November.
The idea, they say, is not just to build a stronger bench that produces future senators, governors and presidents, but redefine the party by delivering on issues from a minimum-wage increase and universal health care to overhauling police practices and the criminal justice system.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-resistance-groups-washington-victories-49594375
September 3, 2017
The Virginia House of Delegates. The Arizona attorney general's office. Atlanta City Hall.
Seats of power unaccustomed to intense political attention are the focus of liberal groups as they try to turn the Trump resistance movement into tangible victories.
Long-established organizations such as MoveOn.org to newer outfits like "Our Revolution," the offshoot of Sen. Bernie Sanders' unsuccessful presidential campaign, are backing scores of candidates for down-ballot races in 2017 as a precursor to next year's elections, when Democrats will try to dent the GOP's monopoly in Washington.
They've already picked up some victories.
(snips)
Newly elected Mayor Chokwe Lumumba won in Jackson, Mississippi, promising to make the ciity "the most radical ... on the planet." New York lawmaker Christine Pellegrino, a Sanders delegate in 2016, prevailed in a special election in a state House district President Donald Trump won easily in November.
The idea, they say, is not just to build a stronger bench that produces future senators, governors and presidents, but redefine the party by delivering on issues from a minimum-wage increase and universal health care to overhauling police practices and the criminal justice system.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-resistance-groups-washington-victories-49594375
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all politics is local.
