Happy Pi Day, John — 3.14, a day as good as any to share this tidbit about my time in Congress before Donald Trump.

You see, I wasn’t always the partisan lightning rod Trump has made me out to be.

Earlier in my career, I don’t think you could have found a member less likely to be subjected to Fox News’ misinformation and smear machine (you know, the one fined $787 million for lying about the election and Dominion Voting Systems).

I co-founded the Democratic Study Group on National Security. I was a frequent presence on Sunday morning shows not talking about Trump but about foreign policy and intelligence matters. I spent far more time securing federal dollars for light rail, an early earthquake warning system, open space, and housing than I did conducting investigations. I believed the only way to hold the seat I had flipped from red to blue in the most expensive House race in the country in 2000 was by providing exceptional constituent service and bringing resources back home to my district.

But my prior experience as a federal prosecutor in the 1980s and 1990s prepared me in ways I never could have anticipated to fight back against Donald Trump — measured where he was erratic, truthful where he was transgressive, methodical where he was maniacal.

It’s why I knew I could take on the fight when Speaker Pelosi asked my committee to investigate Trump in a formal impeachment inquiry, how I prosecuted his Senate trial, and how I helped lead the investigation of the Capitol insurrection on the January 6 Committee.

I can’t wait to close this dark chapter of our history by defeating Donald Trump once and for all this November, so Congress can return to some sense of comity, and we deliver even more concrete results for California and the American people than we did in the first two years of the Biden Administration.

In order to do so, we have to hit our fundraising goal before tomorrow’s final mid-month deadline of this FEC quarter. In a little over 2 weeks, our books will close on the last three months of fundraising, and we’ll file a public report. Everyone from Donald Trump to Mitch McConnell and their allies will be pouring resources into battleground states and across the Senate map if our momentum falters. Can you chip in $3.14 for Pi Day, or $25?

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— Adam

P.S. For any of you wondering about my favorite kind of pie — it’s blueberry (with strawberry rhubarb a close second).

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