Run for the presidency of the United States and win the popular vote by a margin of nearly 3 million people. Although women in u. S. Politics began 2017 with some grim numbers, occupying less than 25 of elected offices at all levels of government, we also witnessed a historic women led outpouring by progressives into the streets in the wake of Donald Trumps inauguration. Since then we have seen a massive upsurge in the number of women who are coming forward to run for Political Office. Since the start of this year, more than 11000 women have approached emilys list to discuss their interest in running for office. Compared to only 900 in the 2016 election cycle. That brings us to the Central Point of todays event. Where do we go from here . How do we make the most of this unique moment of political resistance and progressive renewal and turn womens desire for office into electoral reality . We have to start by getting our facts straight. For too long, the conversation about womens Politi
Morning. Welcome to the center for American Progress and im Carmel Martin executive Vice President for policy at the action fund and thank you so much for joining us today for an exciting event on womens leadership. Weve arrived at a moment that has the potential to be a pivotal time for women in american politics. In the past six months weve had the first female candidate from a Major Political party run for the presidency of the United States and win the popular vote by a margin of nearly 3 million people. Although women in us policy began 2017, its grim numbers occupying less than 25 percent of elected offices at all levels of government. We also witnessed a historic women led outpouring by progressives into the streets in the wake of Donald Trumps inauguration. And since then weve seen a massive upsurge in the number of women who are coming forward to run for Political Office. Since the start of this year, more than 11,000 women have approached emilys list to discuss their interest
Good morning morning. Welcome to the center for American Progress action fund. I am the executive and really thank you so much for joining us today for an exciting event on womens leadership. We have arrived at a moment that has the potential to be a pivotal time for women in american politics. In the past six months we have had the first female candidate from a Major Political party run for the presidency of the United States and win the popular vote by a margin of nearly 3 million people. With some pretty grim numbers occupying less than 25 of elected offices at all levels of government. We witnesses a women led of outpour and since then, we have seen a massive up surge in the number of women who were coming forward to run for Political Office. More than 11,000 women have approached emilys list to discuss their interest in running for office compared to only 900 in the 2016 election cycle. Where do we go from here . How do we make the most of these unique moment of political resistan
From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer with Natalie Morales and al roker. Ive seen that video. About ten times of the bus crash. I keep trying to see if theyre wearing seatbelts. There are seatbelts in the seats. The driver of the bus. Unbelievable. The seatbelt broke or whatever. To see someone thrown out of a window like that. Sucked outside the window. Remarkably, everyone was okay, they survived. There was a fatality in the tractortrailer. It was hit by a tractortrailer. Someone in the tractortrailer did pass away. Well have more on that coming up. Then well take a turn and have a happy story. Were live at the national zoo. We have an exclusive announcement. Very exciting news. We cant tell you yet. We will. Well get to that. Lets begin with breaking news. That fast moving wildfire thats racing through Southern California in the mountains there. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer
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