Hi there,

Last night, an improbable hope became an undeniable reality.

As you know, we are still waiting for a lot of the numbers out of Iowa. While the numbers are being verified, what can’t be denied is we made history last night. And we’re going on to New Hampshire with that victory in our hearts.

Then onto the nomination, and on to chart a new course for our country. We’ve been focused on Iowa and we’ve spent a lot of our resources here. We need Team Pete -- that’s you -- to donate right now to help fund the campaign that can win in November.

We have exactly one shot to defeat Donald Trump. And we’re not going to do it by overreaching. We’re not going to do it by division. We’re not going to do it by saying, “It’s my way or the highway.” This is our shot to galvanize an American majority to win.

And make no mistake -- this is the campaign that will defeat this president.

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One year ago, in the chill of January, we began this unlikely journey to win the American presidency.

We weren’t well known, but we had a new idea. The idea that at a moment when Washington has never felt further from our lives, a middle-class mayor from the Midwest could carry the voices of the American people all the way to the American Capitol.

We had the belief that in the face of exhaustion, cynicism, and division -- in spite of every trampled norm and poisonous tweet -- a rising majority of Americans were hungry for action and ready for new answers.

We could see an American majority yearning for leadership to rally us together behind bold ideas that would make a difference in our lives.

Americans were ready to come together, but our politics weren’t. To seize this moment, we needed a new path forward. One that welcomed people instead of pushed them away; brought them together instead of driving them apart.

We know that with this American majority we are on the cusp of changing the game for ordinary Americans, but that we’d lose if we wrote people off who don’t agree with us 100% of the time. If we could come together, the future we know is possible would start on January 21, 2021.

We’re seeing Democrats hungry to win, Independent voters who had been turned off by our politics, Republicans tired of trying to look their kids in the eye and explain this presidency -- all standing together to declare that we’re defined not by who we voted for in the past but by what we’re voting for in the future.

This is the coalition no pundit saw coming -- and it’s the coalition this president won’t see coming either.

Through your efforts, we have brought together an extraordinary coalition of Americans -- progressives, moderates, and an awful lot of what I like to call “future former Republicans” -- united not just in what we are against but also in what we are for.

And now, because of what we were able to do together in this first contest, we can take this message onward -- to New Hampshire, which has a way of making up its own mind, to Nevada, South Carolina, and beyond. To every corner of America. And we will continue building the movement that will not only win the election against Donald Trump but win the era for our shared values.

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Something is stirring in America. You can feel it. We saw it last night -- in the bluest counties and the reddest, too, and in rural towns and industrial communities. You’ve helped give permission to believe once more.

Thank you very much,

Pete