Hillary Clinton announced the creation of a new political organization
The new organization was named Onward Together.
NEW YORK, may 16. /Offset. TASS Ivan sawyers/. Former candidate for US presidents from Democratic party Hillary Clinton announced the creation of a new political organization to support the initiatives that it put forward during the election campaign. The corresponding statement was published Monday on the website of Clinton on Twitter.
We’re launching Onward Together to encourage people to get involved, organize, and even run for office. https://t.co/8exooosvZ5
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) may 15, 2017.
The new organization was named Onward Together (can be translated as “Together forward” — approx. TASS). “We are launching Onward Together, so that people were inspired and participated in political processes to coordinate their actions and even put forward their candidatures in the elections”, — wrote Clinton.
On the official website Onward Together States that its mission is to promote ideas that supported the presidential election almost 66 million people voted for Clinton, as well as generally “progressive values.” The election campaign of former Secretary of state took place under the slogan of Stronger Together. Assessment of Fox News channel, the new organization means that “Clinton is officially back in politics.”
The election of 2016, Clinton scored 65,8 million votes, while the candidate of the Republican party, Donald trump 62.9 million, However the U.S. presidential election is indirect, and on the day of voting on 8 November, the citizens, supporting one of the contenders for the highest office, in fact, chose members of the electoral College of the party that nominated that candidate. Victory eventually went to the Trump because it received 304 votes of the Association, and Clinton — 227.