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In campaigns, it’s not just about electing a candidate. It’s about getting citizens more engaged in their democracy and giving them a voice. The campaign succeeds when it makes supporters feel that they hold in their own hands the power to change the country. When you have that feeling, you usually aren’t too quiet about it.
As I write this, we’re well into President Trump’s first year in office, and he has not been able to fix anything. He and his supporters are getting a lesson in real time about how in this country no person alone has the power to “fix it.” In America we don’t let others fix things for us. The best solutions, the best connections to each other, come from working together. It’s never been clearer that all voices need to be heard as we look toward the future.
We’re a country of more than 320 million people. In 2016, 69 million voted for Hillary, 66 million voted for Donald Trump, and 90 million eligible citizens did not vote.
