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We won.
Sixteen months ago we kicked off a campaign that all the pundits and politicians, the very serious people, said could never succeed.
Well, the votes have been counted. And guess what we just showed them?
That a movement of the people, by the people, and for the people can never lose. Not in Michigan. Not in these United States of America.
We beat $70 million of spending. We beat the cynicism of a politics that says people won't think for themselves. We beat Washington insiders. And we beat the hell out of AIPAC.
I did not do this. We did this. Everyone who knocked on a door, made a call, sent a dollar, posted a story. The UAW. The AFT. The Nurses. Volunteers who canvassed in the heat instead of writing checks. People who gave $10 they did not have.
If you're reading this, you built it.
So let's be honest about what happens now. The general election starts now, and we begin as the underdog.
Mike Rogers is Trump's handpicked candidate, a 30-year career politician with statewide name recognition. He has been running unopposed for 16 months, and Republicans have already spent more than $45 million building him up.
We just fought through the most expensive Democratic Senate primary in history, and we spent everything we had to win it. We start the general election on empty. Rogers starts it loaded.
I like being an underdog. Let's keep that energy.
The next 48 hours are the first test of this general election. What we raise right now gets read by every politician and pundit in this country as the measure of how strong we are heading into November.
Please become one of the very first donors of our general election campaign and rush $5 or any amount in the next 48 hours.
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Over the next few days, you are going to hear the press try to decide what this election is about. Three questions, on repeat:
→ Can a message like ours win a swing state? Money out of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for All.
→ Can we survive the money? More than $70 million from AIPAC and corporate interests has already come at this campaign, and more is on the way.
→ Will Michigan decide the Senate majority? We have the opportunity to be the 51st vote.
That's what they think this election is about. Here's what we think it's about:
Whether working people in Michigan get a government that answers to them, instead of one that answers to whoever writes the biggest campaign checks.
Every one of those key questions resolves our way only if we make it about that.
It just shouldn't be this hard, in the richest country in the world, to see a doctor, to afford your groceries, to know your kid will have it a little better than you did.
That's what we've been saying across 90 cities and in 350 public events, and it's what we'll say every day between now and November 3rd.
Now, let’s talk about the man on the other side of this.
I was in high school when Mike Rogers introduced the National Pain Care Policy Act. It set Big Pharma loose to deal opioids like candy. By the time I got to medical school, his legislation was why my classmates and I were taught that pain was a “vital sign” and that opioids were the most important medicine we had to offer our patients. A decade after that, as a health director, I watched the worst of the epidemic he helped create come into full view. It's why we put free Narcan vending machines in 100 locations across Wayne County.
More than 600,000 Americans died. Here in Michigan, 17,000 moms, dads, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, daughters and sons. I bet you know someone, and I do too.
He never apologized. He took over $400,000 from the drug companies that profited. He spent 30 years in Washington, came out up to $14 million richer working for the very corporations he used to regulate, then moved to Florida. He still can't explain that money. He says he made it golfing with his buddies.
I don't take corporate money. Never have, never will. Which means the only people I answer to are you.
That's the choice in November. Someone who works for working people, or someone who has already shown you exactly who he works for.
The next 48 hours decide whether we spend the fall chasing MAGA Mike, or whether he wakes up Thursday looking at an avalanche of grassroots money he can't match. He has the corporations. We have each other, and there are a lot more of us.
Make a contribution of $5 or whatever you can right now so we start this general election on offense instead of catching up
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If now isn't the right time for you financially, I understand, and I'm grateful you read this far. Tell one person what we just did instead. And if you know someone who hasn't joined us yet, there's plenty of room for them here too. We've got 13 weeks, and we are looking forward to welcoming as many people into this campaign as possible.
For those 13 weeks, this is going to be a movement of joy, and hope, and honesty, and will. Out of an indelible love for our state and our country, this America of ours.
Thank you for this. Truly.
Your friend in the fight,
Abdul
To contribute via check, please address it to Abdul for U.S. Senate, PO Box 126, St. Clair Shores, MI 48080.
