the inauguration of Donald Trump one year ago today fueled women's marches around the world last year thousands of women marched across the country and around the globe in 2017 following president Trump's election into office and this year women are gathering again to rally and March together Paula Reid is covering the march from Washington arena there are thousands of women here in Washington for the women's march now this is considerably smaller than last year's record-breaking crowds but organizers tell me they are not focused on crowd size they are focused on the elections they are focused on
registering voters and getting more women to run for office all of the events this weekend they will culminate in a big demonstration in Las Vegas tomorrow they're calling it power to the polls to the kicking off is pushed to the 2018 midterms now they chose Las Vegas because that is a state where Hillary Clinton defeated President Trump but only by a razor-thin margin so they say the knot is a state that sort of symbolizes this idea that every vote counts especially this year but the women's March has been dogged over the last year by criticism
that it only represents white liberal women and talking to folks here and talking to some folks who are at the pro-life March yesterday it does appear that organizers are really trying to increase diversity in our leadership and in the causes that they represent we're seeing that even in the speaker's here today but when it comes to policy this event is supported by Emily's list - that is an organization that helps Democratic pro-choice candidates get elected and it does appear that at this point you know the women's march it it is it is a partisan event
in many ways while it represents women at this point based on the organizers that I've talked to you and a lot of conservative women it still appears to only represent women on one side of the aisle arena Paula Reed covering the women's March Thank You Paula
