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POLITICO NIGHTLY: Trolling toward 2024
IN FLORIDA, CHARLIE CRIST IS RUNNING TO REPLACE DESANTIS.
IN TEXAS, BETO O'ROURKE IS RUNNING TO REPLACE GREG ABBOTT.
IT'S TIME FOR SENSIBLE SOLUTIONS, NOT STUNTS.
We’re reaching out with a MAJOR announcement:
We just made our first TV ad buy of the campaign with reservations in major markets across Texas.
Funded by grassroots donations and backed by more than 80,000 volunteers, the ads will hold Greg Abbott accountable for failing the people of Texas with his extreme agenda.
Here’s why this is so important: at every town hall and rally we’re hosting across Texas, we’re seeing voters of every background — including lifelong Republicans and people who voted for Trump in 2020 — choose Beto’s positive, unifying vision once they see it compared to Abbott’s extremism.
Our new TV ads will make the choice in this race clear to millions of additional Texans.
But getting this ad in front of voters is expensive. It costs roughly $1,485,000 to go live in the top four major TV markets in Texas for a week.
So we are asking our grassroots supporters: can you chip in $10 or even $20 to help us reach our ambitious goal of $1,485,000 to spread our message and defeat Greg Abbott?
This people-powered campaign’s TV ads will begin running at a moment when Abbott’s job approval is underwater, his support among Independents has plummeted 13 points since the spring and nearly 60% of voters say the state is going in the wrong direction under his failed leadership.
But there are millions more voters who still need to hear about Greg Abbott’s cruelty, incompetence, and extremism. He signed the nation’s most extreme abortion bill into law with no exception for rape or incest, and has done absolutely nothing to stop the next school shooting after six major mass shootings on his watch.
We know that once our ads air across Texas, our people-powered campaign will grow, and we will have what it takes to win in November. But we need your help.
With gratitude,
Team Beto
July 31st marks our next end-of-month fundraising deadline.
It also marks just 100 days until Election Day.
You already know how much work we’re putting in to win this. Beto is on a 49-day, more than 5,600 mile drive to reach communities in every part of the state. Our organizing team is opening new offices, hiring more organizers, and contacting millions of voters. And we’re preparing ads to reach even more.
But in these final 100 days, we need our entire team to step it up. To win against Greg Abbott and the corporate mega-donors in his corner, we need to go above and beyond what’s ever been done in the state of Texas. There’s no other option.
Together, we're running a truly historic campaign to get Texas on the right track. Thanks to the hard work that our 79,000+ volunteers have put into knocking on doors and making calls at record levels, we have an opportunity to end Greg Abbott’s extremism and corruption — and to elect Beto as our next governor. We can’t let this opportunity pass us by.
This election isn’t about Democrats versus Republicans. Texans overwhelmingly reject Greg Abbott’s extreme positions on abortion and guns, and a majority of Texans think we’re going in the wrong direction under Abbott. The people of Texas are ready for a positive, unifying vision — the vision Beto’s running on.
In these next 100 days, we need to significantly increase the number of voters we’re contacting. We’ll need our volunteers to step up and lead more block walks and phone banks than ever before. It’s the only way we’ll reach all the Texas voters we need to win.
We’re confident, because we’ve already seen this team do extraordinary things — including outraising Greg Abbott’s mega-donors for the very first time in the last TEC reporting period. But if we’re going to defeat Abbott in November, we have to give it everything we’ve got.
We’re so grateful you’re on this team.
Thank you,
Beto HQ
Greg Abbott’s nearly $20 million in TV ad buys gives him a dangerous advantage in our governor’s race. Here’s why:
“Gov. Greg Abbott is pressing one of his biggest advantages in his re-election campaign: money.”
“Abbott’s campaign…has said the early TV reservations allow it to lock down the most valued air time.”
Texas Tribune
In other words, Abbott is using his massive amount of cash to ensure he can reach Texas voters right when his ads will have the biggest effect — and leave us behind.
Abbott’s team has said that they plan to spend as much as $100,000,000 attacking Beto. And they’re well on their way to doing exactly that.
We’re calling on grassroots supporters like you to come together and help us counter Abbott’s massive cash advantage.
Thank you,
Beto for Texas
We just announced our fundraising numbers. So did Greg Abbott.
We’re excited to share that we OUTRAISED Greg Abbott — and just set a new record for the most money raised in a single reporting period by a state-level candidate in Texas history.
| February 20 - June 30 | Amount Raised | Contributions |
| Beto O'Rourke | $27.6 million | More Than 511,000 |
| Greg Abbott | $24.9 million | Nearly 113,000 |
This unprecedented grassroots fundraising happened because of you and your fellow supporters. We raised this money from over half a million different contributions — more than quadruple the number of contributions to Abbott. And more than 98.9% came in online, to emails just like this one.
Our grassroots donors have finally outpaced Abbott’s corporate mega-donors — right as new polls show his lead shrinking to just 5 points (a 10-point drop) and a growing majority of Texans say they disapprove of the direction Texas is heading in under his failed leadership.
More than ever, it is clear that we have the momentum to defeat Greg Abbott. But his fundraising is right on our tail, and his campaign has a war chest of funds. We know for a fact that he plans to spend over $100 million against Beto before Election Day.
It’s absolutely critical that we don’t slow down. We can’t afford to.
It’s so important to us that you know how we’re using the record-breaking amount of money that supporters like you have generously contributed to our campaign.
First and foremost, these resources go toward the powerful work of our organizers and more than 78,000 volunteers — a historic number of folks giving their time and energy to a campaign to make change in Texas.
In June alone, we knocked more than 105,500 doors and made more than one million calls to Texans. These numbers will only increase as we move closer to Election Day.
Alongside our organizers and volunteers, Beto is days away from hitting the road for a 49-day, 5,600 mile Drive for Texas to visit over 70 communities across the state.
We’re ensuring that Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike understand what we’re working toward: creating great jobs, investing in world-class schools, expanding health care so more people can see a doctor and lowering costs so families can afford to live in this state. We’re ensuring people know that our vision couldn’t be farther from Abbott’s dangerous and extreme positions on abortion and gun safety.
At the end of the day, one thing is clear as we outraise Abbott, close the gap in the polls, and expand our organizing across Texas: There are more of us than Abbott’s special interest mega-donors, Frank.
Thanks for all you do,
Team Beto
Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke joins Morning Joe to discuss his poll numbers and why he says GOP Gov. Greg Abbott's extremist agenda is not a reflection of the people of Texas.
We’re counting on your help before tomorrow’s mandatory Texas Ethics Commission (TEC) deadline.
After midnight tomorrow, we’ll need to publicly report how much we’ve raised. We need to be able to show that we’ve reached our fundraising goals to compete against Greg Abbott in each and every one of Texas’ 254 counties.
We’ve assigned you to sponsor Cherokee County in Texas. Our goal is to raise $14,672.50 by tomorrow’s deadline in order to reach the 29,345 registered voters in Cherokee County. (That’s 50 cents a voter.) Can Beto count on you to step up as a Cherokee County sponsor before tomorrow’s TEC deadline? ⇢ Make a $25 donation to reach 50 voters in Cherokee County. ⇢ Make a $50 donation to reach 100 voters in Cherokee County. ⇢ Make a $100 donation to reach 200 voters in Cherokee County. |
Our 254 County Mobilization plan is key to defeating Greg Abbott and electing Beto as the next governor of Texas. Thank you for considering a donation to reach the 29,345 registered voters of Cherokee County.
Beto for Texas
On June 30th, we’ll publicly report everything we’ve raised.
It’ll be the first time in many months that the people of Texas will see the kind of resources we have, and they’ll make a determination of whether this campaign is possible — whether we have the money necessary to reach voters who are going to decide the outcome of this election.
We want to make sure we have a very, very strong showing — especially because we know that Greg Abbott will be able to reach out to millionaires and billionaires who have largely funded his campaign thus far.
Against that, we have folks who are willing to pitch in $15, $25, or $50 at a time, and we want you to be among them.
Thank you,
Beto
We're quickly approaching another major fundraising deadline. I'd love to have your help to make sure that we not only have the resources to compete but to win in the most important Governor's race taking place in America today.
Greg Abbott has outraised us in the past reporting periods. We can't let that happen again.
Thank you,
Beto
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