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ATLANTA (AP) — For more than a decade, Georgia Democrats struggled to lure highly...

ATLANTA (AP) — For more than a decade, Georgia Democrats struggled to lure highly...

New wave of lawmakers build off of pandemic-era hurdles On Location: May 20, 2021 Replay Video UP NEXT As the pandemic raged, local political hopefuls across the country were often serving constituents on the frontlines while also guiding their communities through a national reckoning over race relations. In many cases, the personal experiences of those officials were evolving in tandem with what voters and constituents saw in their daily lives. © Andrew Harnik/AP, FILE The need for action to mitigate the dual crises gave several emerging state leaders an opportunity to leverage their per...

The Capitol riot pissed off these people so much that they’re running for office Seasoned political operatives say they’ve never seen anything like it. Amanda Litman, a top fundraising aide to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, founded the nonprofit group Run For Something in 2017 to give first-time candidates for local office the tools they need to launch a campaign. In the last two months, said Litman, roughly 11,000 people have registered with Run For Something to express an interest in a campaign for public office. “We saw January 2021 turn into our best candidate recruitment month ...

On Monday evening, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow spent an entire segment of her prime time show promulgating the need to replace Republicans with far-left Democrats. The partisan host invited Amanda Litman, a co-founder and executive director of the lef