SUBJ: 4 pro-choice Democratic women in healthcare who will decide control of Congress
SUBJ: 4 pro-choice healthcare heroes and women who need our support
SENDER: Election Update
PRE-HEADER: Our pro-choice, pro-science majority in the House is hanging on by just five seats. And we’ve endorsed 4 incredible women with backgrounds in healthcare who are running in the most decisive House races of the year.
SPLIT: Lauren Underwood (IL-14), Kim Schrier (WA-8), Annie Andrews (SC-1), Yadira Caraveo (CO-8)
%%Firstname(Friends)%% – Our pro-choice, pro-science majority in the House is hanging on by just five seats.
And the Supreme Court is preparing to strike down Roe v. Wade imminently, which would make abortion illegal in as many as 24 states.
Nancy Pelosi is calling this the most important election for women’s rights in modern history. That’s why we’re asking if you’ll donate directly to 4 incredible pro-choice women with backgrounds in healthcare who are running in the most decisive House races of the year.
Republicans just announced they are planning to spend more than $10 MILLION to defeat these four healthcare heroes: Each of these races is expected to be decided by single digits.
Split a donation today with Lauren Underwood in Illinois, Dr. Kim Schrier in Washington, Dr. Annie Andrews in South Carolina, and Dr. Yadira Caraveo in Colorado. We cannot defend our majority in the House if these four pro-choice women lose.
Lauren Underwood (IL-14) – When Lauren Underwood announced she was running as a first-time candidate against a Republican incumbent who won re-election by nearly 20 points in 2016, she was considered a long shot.
But Lauren is no stranger to tough fights. She’s a registered nurse, she helped the Obama administration implement the Affordable Care Act, and like tens of millions of Americans living with a pre-existing condition, she refused to sit on the sidelines as Republicans (like her Congressman at the time) voted repeatedly to destroy those protections.
Lauren’s victory in Illinois’ 14th Congressional District helped Democrats flip the House in 2018 – and her re-election in 2020 was one of the closest races in the country. We’ll need to re-elect Lauren in this critical seat if we want to hold onto our House majority.
Dr. Kim Schrier (WA-8) – Washington’s 8th Congressional District had never been represented by a Democrat in our country’s history.
That is, until Dr. Kim Schrier, a local pediatrician, ran as a first-time candidate and ended up winning one of the most competitive and most expensive House races in 2018.
When Kim was sworn into office, she became the only woman physician serving in the entire U.S. Congress. Republicans have made unseating Kim a top priority of theirs as she represents a historically Republican-held seat.
Many election experts consider her re-election bid to be a “toss-up” and Republicans recently booked millions of dollars for attack ads to spend against her in the coming months.
Dr. Annie Andrews (SC-1) – Annie is a community pediatrician who spent the past years working on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Her opponent is the notorious GOP Rep. Nancy Mace, a first-term incumbent who flipped a House seat from blue to red in 2020, who (in)famously went on Fox News to attack the integrity of vaccines and then went on CNN moments afterward to praise the efficacy of vaccinating against Covid-19.
Mace is vehemently anti-science and spends more time on Fox News than almost any other member of Congress. Democrats won South Carolina’s 1st district in 2018 by a slim margin and Annie’s running a local-minded and grassroots-powered campaign that gives us our best chance of winning it back.
Dr. Yadira Caraveo (CO-8) – As part of the redistricting process, Colorado lawmakers created a true toss-up district: it’s split evenly 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats and it’s an open seat.
Colorado has never elected a Latina to Federal office and Yadira, a local pediatrician and state legislator who has become the go-to expert for public health and healthcare related legislation in local Colorado politics, is trying to change that.
With several Democratic incumbents retiring and GOP gerrymandering costing Democrats seats, we have to win highly competitive toss-up districts like Colorado’s 8th if we’re going to hold our historically narrow majority in the House.
One donation might not seem like it will make a difference or overcome $10 million in spending. But when thousands of you step up and donate, especially in races that are expected to be decided by razor-thin margins, it is going to make all the difference.
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