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online. reaching out to new voters, young people and everyone who wants a better, stronger, fairer america. leland: obviously, mrs. clinton who lost the presidential race to donald trump back in november delivered the message via video recording to the group here in atlanta. the video highlighted the party platform the democrats put forward in 2016 and emphasized the need for grass roots activism moving forward. and it s interesting to note, liz, that despite all of that from what we heard from hillary clinton, in many ways it s exactly the opposite of what we are hearing from democratic activists and the folks who are going to be picking the new dnc chair. a lot of them saying the big problem was the platform in 2016, that focused so much on what they call fringe issues. a lot of people saying we re focusing way too much on the 1% issues, transgender rights,