Democrat Jon Ossoff greets supporters in Georgia's historically-Republican 6th Congressional District.

Running for Office 101

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 19, 2017

Since the 2016 election, there's been a surge in interest in running for office from people who were never involved before. Truscha Quatrone, executive director of Emerge NJ, Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run For Something (and Hillary Clinton's former email director for the 2016 presidential campaign), and co-founder of Higher Heights, Kimberly Peeler-Allen, talk about how their organizations help advise and train people to take the leap to run, and the nuts and bolts of running a campaign. 

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