CHICAGO ― Last June, with the presidential primary season all but officially over, around 3,000 supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) gathered for the first-ever People’s Summit in Chicago to co-mingle feelings of elation and defeat. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was slated to be named the party nominee at the Democratic National Convention the following month. That the Democratic National Committee put a thumb on the scale for Clinton was an especially sore point. In May, former Sanders delegate Christine Pellegrino won a seat in the New York state assembly by flipping a district Trump had won by 23 percentage points. Other pickups include a mayoralty in Jackson, Mississippi, and city council wins in nearby Meridian and South Fulton, Georgia.

Source: Huffington Post June 10, 2017 18:25 UTC