Meet the 27-Year-Old Woman Teaching Millennials How to Run For Office

Oct 11, 2017, 12:27 PM

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Election Night was rough for Amanda Litman. As email director for Hillary Clinton's campaign, she remembers hearing senior staff reassure the team that their Midwestern firewall would hold, then watching Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania slowly turn red. She remembers Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta telling staff that they would fight until every vote is counted, then getting an alert that Clinton had called Trump to concede. The whole evening was a "nightmare," Litman says.