Hi team — It’s Scott, Tammy’s campaign manager.

I made a difficult decision yesterday, and I thought you should know about it.

As you may know, Republican megamillionaire Eric Hovde recently announced his Senate campaign to flip Tammy’s seat red. And in just one week, our opponent flooded $2.5 million into Wisconsin to go up with self-funded TV and digital ads — several weeks before our campaign planned to launch ads of our own.

Look, whoever has more resources to spend on TV will likely win this election. That means we can't let Hovde and his right-wing allies control the narrative. We need to make sure voters know the truth now.

After talking it through with Tammy and the team, we decided to increase our March advertising budget to go up with our own ads as soon as possible. The money wasn’t in the budget, but I gave the green light anyway.

I took a big risk here. There’s no doubt about it. But I was willing to bet that if I reached out and told the truth, our grassroots supporters would come through to help fill this unexpected hole in our budget. That’s the only way we can keep pace with the $20 million Hovde plans to spend.

So, can I count on you to pitch in to Tammy’s reelection campaign today? Every dollar will help us close this budget gap so we can keep our new ads on the air and get Tammy’s message out to voters across the state.

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Make no mistake: This was a tough call that carries a real risk, but Tammy knows we need to be doing everything we possibly can to defeat our opponent and win this election.

Thanks for chipping in today, if you can. We’re so grateful to have you on this team.

— Scott

Scott Spector
Campaign Manager
Tammy Baldwin for Senate