Dear friends,

First thing's first - we want to say thank you!

Thank you for showing up. Thank you for knocking doors, making calls, talking to your friends - doing everything you could to ensure that we continue to elect candidates who represent our values and are looking out for our communities.

Last night, voters across the country made it clear that voters vote, polls don’t. Here are a few key takeaways from the evening.
* In Pennsylvania, the number of absentee ballot returns for youth voters more than doubled since 2021 ([link removed]) .
* In Ohio, more than 70% of Hispanic voters and more than 80% of Black voters and voters under 30 years old ([link removed]) voted to protect reproductive rights.
* In Kentucky, and across the nation, Republicans had a major “turnout/enthusiasm problem ([link removed]) ” which helped Democrats re-elect Governor Andy Beshear.
* In Virginia, we were able to beat the odds,flip the House of Delegates, and retain the state Senate, even after Governor Glenn Youngkin made multimillion-dollar investments into districts throughout the state.

Up and down the ballot in races all over the country, Democrats overperformed across the board last night. These wins will allow us to help protect voting rights, abortion rights, and expand access to Medicaid. See a round-up of some of the work our team did to ensure Democrats won across the country.

In Solidarity,

Brencia Berry & The DNC Coalitions Team


** VA Campus Organizing
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In Virginia, the youth vote was critical to our success on Election day! The DNC, along with our partners in the youth space, engaged young voters through robust and strategic programming, with DNC staff working on-the-ground to support campus organizing on five key campuses across the commonwealth. See some highlights from our work below.

Our team supported half a dozen on-campus events and youth-oriented canvass launches, including an event at University of Mary Washington with Chair Harrison, Joshua Cole, and Joel Griffin, an event at VA Tech in Blacksburg with David Hogg and Lily Franklin, and a youth canvass launch for Travis Nembhard and Danica Roem.

Above: Organizers were on campuses facilitating a youth roundtable to encourage and facilitate collaboration between youth organizations organizing on the ground and across the country to turn out youth voters

Campus Spotlight: At William and Mary in Williamsburg, there were 750+ provisional ballots cast from first time voters.
* DNC paid for a food truck that provided 250+ meals to students
* Click here ([link removed]) to see a video of students waiting to vote


** Mobilizing Our Communities: GOTV Virtual Phone Banks!
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To support the extensive GOTV efforts on the ground, our team planned many distributed phone banks to support our get out the vote efforts with key partners like the Human Rights Campaign, elected officials like Congressman Maxwell Frost, and celebrity surrogates like Brita Filter.

These phone banks attracted hundreds of volunteers and where they completed over one million phone calls and sent nearly two million text messages to voters in races and states across the country with culturally competent and coalition specific content. These calls and texts supported work in…
* Virginia: Legislative races and 4th Congressional District special election
* Kentucky: Gubernatorial and State Senate District 19 elections
* Pennsylvania: Supreme Court and Allegheny County Executive election.
* Tennessee: State House District 52 and 86 elections
* Ohio: Issue 1 ballot measure
* South Carolina: Greenville mayoral election
* New Hampshire: Manchester mayoral and State House District 1 elections


** HISTORIC WINS ACROSS THE NATION
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The 2023 elections ushered in a wave of historic firsts as new leaders take elected office. See a few highlights below.

Cherelle Parker, former Philadelphia council member, became the first female mayor in Philadelphia’s history. Parker ran against Republican David Oh, another former city council member, to become the city’s 100th mayor, succeeding term-limited incumbent Mayor Jim Kenney.

Exonerated “Central Park Five” member Yusef Salaam won a seat Tuesday on the New York City Council, completing a stunning reversal of fortune decades after he was wrongly imprisoned ([link removed]) in an infamous rape case.

Salaam, a Democrat, will represent a central Harlem district on the city council, having run unopposed for the seat in one of many local elections held across New York state Tuesday.


Democrat Gabe Amo is the projected winner ([link removed]) of the election for Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District on Tuesday, according to the NBC News Decision Desk. Amo’s victory makes him the first person of color to represent the Ocean State in Congress.


** Women & Abortion Rights Won Last Night
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In one of the most-followed elections yesterday evening, Ohio voters came out to approve Issue 1, a constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights into the state constitution, protecting a woman’s right to make decisions about her own body. This is a major victory for Democrats and the women of Ohio, and is another example of voters showing up to protect abortion rights. As we have seen time and time again ([link removed]) since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year, when abortion rights are on the ballot, reproductive freedom wins.

In a statement yesterday evening ([link removed]) , Vice President Kamala Harris said the following: “The results in Ohio underscore what the vast majority of Americans believe: politicians should not interfere in decisions that should be between a woman and her doctor. Since the Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe v. Wade, people across the country have voted to defend reproductive freedom every time it has appeared on the ballot – including in Kansas, California, Michigan, Montana, Kentucky, and Vermont.”

And it wasn’t just Ohio! In Kentucky, Governor Andy Beshear, who
ran a campaign ([link removed]) with his support of abortion rights front and center, was elected to a second term. In Virginia, the only state in the South ([link removed]) that has not restricted abortion rights since last year’s Supreme Court decision, Virginians came out and voted to flip the House of Delegates for Democrats, ensuring that anti-abortion Gov. Glenn Youngkin is unable to ban reproductive rights within the state. And in Pennsylvania, Democrat and supporter of abortion rights Dan McCaffery won an open seat ([link removed]) on the state Supreme Court, which will now be made up of five Democrats and two Republicans.


** ICYMI: Biden Campaign Releases First TV Ad Speaking To Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
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Biden-Harris 2024 announced the rollout of its Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) paid media program, the earliest investment in AAPI paid media in a presidential election. This program will target AAPI communities across the country through a diverse array of print, TV, and radio advertising.

The AAPI media program will kick off with the TV ad “Family Business ([link removed]) ,” which spotlights Jenny Poon and Odeen Domingo – a husband and wife team who run a small business in Phoenix, Arizona. The spot will run on general market programming in Phoenix, which includes target-rich programming like Dancing With the Stars, Bachelor in Paradise, and high-rated local and network news adjacencies, as well as on national cable news. In the spot, Jenny talks about her experience as a daughter of Vietnamese immigrants who built a small business and how that shaped her into who she is today. Jenny and Odeen explain that President Biden shifting focus to investments in small business and away from large corporations has jump-started small businesses like theirs.

Beyond the television spot, the AAPI buy will include print ads in national and local outlets in the battleground states Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The print ads will be in-language in targeted media outlets and will include buys in the Chinese, Indian, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese, and broader South Asian communities. Biden-Harris 2024 will also run a radio spot in North Carolina which will launch later this month.
“We are excited to announce our early investment into AAPI media, building on our campaign’s intentional, aggressive outreach to the voters that sent President Biden and Vice President Harris to the White House in historic numbers in 2020,” said Biden-Harris 2024 Campaign Manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez. “Our first ad, ‘Family Business,’ communicates the clear choice facing the AAPI community nextNovember – between President Biden’s commitment to investing in our small businesses and our families, or MAGA Republicans solely focused on tax breaks for the wealthy and powerful corporations.”

Key Point: “The Biden campaign has released the first in a series of ads targeting Asian American and Pacific Islander voters — and specifically, small-business owners.

The 30-second clip, shared first with NBC News, features a Vietnamese American woman whose parents fled to the U.S. during the war and started a restaurant. Now a business owner herself with a young family, Jenny Poon says she is flourishing, having learned from watching her parents.”

NBC News: Biden campaign releases first TV ad speaking to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders ([link removed])

[Sakshi Venkatraman, 11/7/23]
* The Biden campaign has released the first in a series of ads targeting Asian American and Pacific Islander voters — and specifically, small-business owners.
* Asian American voters tend to lean left, according to APIA Vote's 2022 Asian American voter survey. When it came to party identification, 44% identified with the Democratic Party, 19% with the Republican Party and 29% were independent.
* Under the Asian American umbrella, Japanese voters were the most Democratic, at 57%, and Vietnamese voters were the least, at 23%. But an analysis by progressive firm Catalist found that the Democrats’ advantage with AAPI voters fell from 66% to 59% from 2020 to 2022.
* Asian Americans also own more businesses than any other minority ethnic group in the U.S., according to a January report by the Census Bureau. As of 2020, there were 612,194 Asian-owned U.S. businesses, employing about 5.2 million people. In the accommodation and food services sector specifically, Asians outnumbered other minority groups by a large margin, the report said.
* “Our first ad, ‘Family Business,’ communicates the clear choice facing the AAPI community next November — between President Biden’s commitment to investing in our small businesses and our families, or MAGA Republicans solely focused on tax breaks for the wealthy and powerful corporations,” Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement.
* The Biden campaign is prepared to roll out many more pieces of media like this ad. Campaign representatives said more television, radio and print programming will follow, including in-language materials targeted toward Indian, Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese and other South Asian communities.

Watch “Family Business” HERE ([link removed]) .

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