The California State flag flies outside City Hall, in Los Angeles, California on January 27, 2017.
A campaign by Californians to secede from the rest of the country over Donald Trump's election is gaining steam with suporters given the green light to start collecting signatures for the measure to be put to a vote.
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LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 30: Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, with a Powerpack unit the background unveils suit of batteries for homes, businesses, and utilities at Tesla Design Studio April 30, 2015 in Hawthorne, California. Musk unveiled the home battery named Powerwall with a selling price of $3500 for 10kWh and $3000 for 7kWh and very large utility pack called Powerpack. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 04: Actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt attend 'WORLD WAR Z' Germany Premiere at Sony Centre on June 4, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds up a placard while addressing supporters during a campaign rally at Silver Spurs Arena, inside the Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida on August 11, 2016. / AFP / Gregg Newton (Photo credit should read GREGG NEWTON/AFP/Getty Images)
Armed French Naval Fusiliers, part of Operation Sentinelle, patrol near the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on July 20, 2016. / AFP / ALAIN JOCARD (Photo credit should read )
AVIGNON, FRANCE - DECEMBER 06: Marion Marechal Le Pen, vice-president of the French far-right Front National (FN) party and candidate for the regional elections in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) region, speaks to supporters after the annoucement of the results on December 6, 2015 in Avignon, France. Marion Marechal Le Pen has won the first round of the regional election with a reported 40,2 percent of the vote. (Photo by Patrick Aventurier/Getty Images)
French President Francois Hollande (L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) address a press conference with the Ukrainian President following talks at the chancellery in Berlin on August 24, 2015. Merkel and Hollande have put enormous political onus on resolving Ukraine's 16-month pro-Russian uprising and returning peace to the European Union's turbulent eastern front. AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ (Photo credit should read TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images)
