More Than 1,000 Progressives Signed Up To Run For Office Over The Weekend.

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Trump is inspiring young Democrats to get into politics.

WASHINGTON ― More than 1,000 progressives signed up to run for office this weekend following President Donald Trump’s executive action targeting immigrants and refugees.

And that’s just through one organization.

Run for Something, a new grass-roots group that helps young Democrats run for local and state office, announced Monday that it nearly doubled its total number of recruits ― from 1,200 to 2,200 ― in the last three days. The organization, which launched on Jan. 20, the day of Trump’s inauguration, was already surging with interest before Trump signed an executive order Friday that bans Syrians from taking refuge in the United States, halts the U.S. refugee resettlement program for four months and temporarily blocks people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. at all.'>>>

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-democrats-run-for-office_us_588f6a74e4b08a14f7e7263e

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. Thanks tRump!

[uponit7771]

2. +1― from 1,200 to 2,200 ― in the last three days.

[Sherman A1]

3. K&R

[-Steph-]

4. That's wonderful. Where I live there wasn't a single Democrat running in any of the local races.

[HoneyBadger]

5. Awesome

Everyone should run for something, I particularly love stories of when a kid straight out of high school campaigns in their freshman term and wins office before they are 19. Happened at Binghamton recently.

[Soxfan58]

6. Thats what I've been waiting to see.