EMILY's List sees female candidate boom in Trump era
BY LISA HAGEN at the Hill
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/340176-emilys-list-sees-female-candidate-boom-in-trump-era
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EMILY's List is gearing up to be a big player in the 2018 midterms, with the influential group that aims to elect female candidates saying Thursday that more than 15,000 women have already reached out to them about running for office next year.
President Stephanie Schriock told reporters at the group’s Washington headquarters that the unprecedented number of potential women candidates marks a huge uptick from the 2016 cycle, when 920 women talked to EMILY’s List about potential electoral bids. She said they hear from 20 to 50 women a day about potentially running for office, with half of them younger than 45.
EMILY's List, which backs female candidates who support abortion rights, has already waded into a handful of key House and Senate races ahead of the 2018 midterms. The group will continue to actively play in primaries to help elect more women to Congress and local levels of government.
“We look at this not just as our crop of candidates for 2018, because they’re not all going to run right away,” Schriock said. “This is an extraordinary pipeline of future candidates for the next decade.”
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