It Is Time For Strength, Leadership, Doing And Making June Count. Join Me and Let's Go Win This Thing, TogetherI am excited to announce that I am doing an event w/Anderson Clayton in Raleigh, NC on July 19th - Join us!
Happy Sunday all. A reminder that here at Hopium we do more, worry less. And yes there is much to be worried about right now, but that’s why this community and all of you need to lead us through this rough patch for the campaign. In my long career I have been through moments where it felt like we weren’t going to make it, that it was just too hard; and then we put our heads down and kept doing the work, the sun rose in the morning, and we got through to the other side. This is one of those moments. A moment where you need to make the call - cut and run, or stand and fight. I am standing and fighting, and hope all of you will join me in doing so in these critical days ahead. Many of you already have. The fundraising on this site these last few days and over the past month has been incredible. For here at Hopium we are a community of doers, and man have you all been doing these last few days. We’ve blown past our ambitious goals for Biden-Harris and our 12 House candidates, are within reach of hitting almost all of our remaining fundraising goals - which were all stretch goals I wasn’t sure we could reach - and my goal for paid subscribers here at Hopium. Honestly, I am bit stunned at what’s happening here. The power of the community we are building together is remarkable, inspiring, so so welcome in this time of cynicism, of darkness, of Trump. Together we need to lead our party, our friends, and our country forward though this challenging time. Let us not just DO in the coming days, let us summon our collective courage to LEAD.
Yesterday I shared with you early data that has found no damage to Biden. Part of my understanding of what happened on Thursday is that we continue to be in a media dynamic where Democrats are held to a different standard than MAGA. Where our strength is underestimated, theirs overestimated; and while many in the media may have become inured to Trump’s bat-shit crazy extremism voters have shown us in election after election, particularly since Dobbs, they aren’t inured - they are horrified, disgusted, repulsed by MAGA and Trump. And while the media may be focusing on Biden’s struggles on Thursday night, many voters who watched the debate were deeply unhappy with what they saw with Trump - and for good reason. It was in my mind the craziest and most disturbing performance we’ve seen from Trump on the national stage since he began his candidacy in 2015. He is deeply unwell, unfit, extreme, dangerous. Choose you words. A rapist, fraudster, traitor, felon. So yes, let’s keep talking about us and our challenges in the coming days but LET US NOT FOR ONE MOMENT STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS HISTORIC THREAT DONALD TRUMP IS TO EVERYTHING WE HOLD DEAR AND HOW CRAZY IT IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS RALLIED BEHIND THIS HISTORICALLY TERRIBLE MAN. Not talking about him is doing MAGA’s work for them. In this recent video I talked about what’s at stake this November, what MAGA, Iran, Russia, North Korea and China are trying to take away from all of us, and why we must keep fighting.  We have one more day, today, to make June count. Every Democrat running for federal office from Biden on down will be reporting their fundraising numbers in a few days. This will be the last major filing until October so in many ways this one is the most important filing of the cycle. The relative strength of our Party and our candidates as we go deeper into the General Election will be to a great degree determined by this filing. So it is really critical that whatever you have budgeted to give this summer you give today. Do not wait. Your contribution matters more today than tomorrow or later this summer. Here is where our fundraising stands as of the morning of June 30th, and how you can contribute, volunteer and make June really count:
I am excited to announce that as a way of supporting the great Anderson Clayton and her insuring effort to turn North Carolina blue that I am doing an event with Anderson in Raleigh on Friday, July 19th from 5 to 7pm at Junction West, 310 S West St Suite 110, Raleigh, NC. To attend this event you must have purchased a ticket for the big NC Dem Unity Dinner on Saturday night, July 20th with Nancy Pelosi, Josh Stein and many more (I will be there too). If you want to buy a ticket for the Unity dinner you can do so here, and you can sign up to come to our Friday night event here (but you must have a Unity Dinner ticket). Look forward to seeing folks in a few weeks!
Finally, on this critical and consequential day, I am sending along a powerful email Biden-Harris deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty sent out last night. It reminds us of the progress we’ve made under Joe Biden, and gives you things to do (so you worry less). I want to encourage every Hopium member to sign up to become a Biden-Harris volunteer this week and sign up for a call shift into the battleground states the week of July 8th. I plan on doing at least one shift that week, hopefully more. We need to use this moment to show America and voters in the battleground that when we stumble, we get back up. For that is what patriots, who love their country, do. We fight for the flag that in our homes is right-sided up, not upside down. Rob’s great email: Hey, Simon, If you're like me, you're getting lots of texts or calls from folks about the state of the race after Thursday. Maybe it was your panicked aunt, your MAGA uncle, or some self-important Podcasters. It's a tough position to be in, so I thought it might be helpful to send you a few responses.
We even had three times as many people as usual apply to campaign jobs yesterday. Mercifully, while the beltway pundits are spending their time attacking Joe Biden, our people are more focused than ever. This brings me to what you can do right now.
And lastly, but most importantly, you've got to keep the faith. I've worked for Joe Biden for five years, which is a pretty short tenure comparatively. I've watched as people counted him out after Iowa in 2020, and then he won. I've watched as they said there was no way he could win the general election (do not think I have forgotten the week of New York Times opinion pieces about how Joe Biden needed to change his campaign strategy), and then he won. I've watched as people said his legislative agenda was dead, and then he passed the Inflation Reduction Act. I've watched as people said he'd get cooked in the midterms, and then Democrats had historic wins. There is no candidate who is better when he's backed into a corner, and there is no team that is better when we come together to do big things. That's because we, like him, keep our heads down and do the work. As the President says, when you get knocked down, you get back up again. And as some poets once said: you're never going to keep him down. Thanks for being in this with us. Rob Flaherty …….. I close by sharing what is to me the most inspiring piece of media the Biden campaign has produced so far. It’s called Flag and may it remind you why we are in this fight, and why we simply must win.  Keep working hard all. Proud to be in this fight with all of you. Let’s put our heads down and go win this thing, together - Simon You're currently a free subscriber to Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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Sunday, June 30, 2024
It Is Time For Strength, Leadership, Doing And Making June Count. Join Me and Let's Go Win This Thing, Together
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