Dear MoveOn member,

Ben Tulchin is the former pollster for Senator Bernie Sanders—and he's alarmed about President Joe Biden's chances in the 2024 election.

Tulchin's research, reported in The New York Times, shows that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is gaining serious ground among two traditionally Democratic voting groups: Latinos and younger voters.¹

If Kennedy Jr. siphons away even just a few thousand Latinos and younger voters, it could very well hand victory to Donald Trump.

And, in a troubling turn of events, Kennedy Jr. is now on the ballot in the battleground state of Michigan—and he's poised to make the ballot in the key states of Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada, too.²

No wonder Kennedy Jr. is heavily supported by ultra-wealthy Trump donors.³ Even Trump himself has admitted Kennedy Jr.'s campaign helps him.⁴

MoveOn has an ambitious $32 million plan to win this election—including by exposing the truth about Kennedy Jr.'s doomed-to-fail spoiler campaign. We'll tell you about our plan in just a moment, but first: Will you donate $9 to help reach Latino voters, young voters, and other key constituencies in battleground states in our fight against Trump, Kennedy Jr., and the MAGA movement?

John, as Tulchin explains, Latinos and younger voters flocked to Sanders in the 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primaries. And while they sided strongly with Biden in the general election against Trump, it was clear "they weren't enthused" by Biden's candidacy.⁵

Now, Tulchin says that Kennedy Jr. is working to siphon off those voters. And Kennedy Jr.'s plot appears to be working.

Alarmingly, The New York Times' most recent poll of battleground states showed Kennedy Jr. neck and neck with Biden and Trump among voters under 45.⁶ If those numbers hold, it will spell disaster for Biden's reelection and plunge our country into a disastrous second Trump term.

That's why MoveOn is running a campaign designed to mitigate the risks posed by Kennedy Jr. Our strategy includes the following:

Voter education and mobilization. Educating voters about Kennedy Jr.'s positions, including his support for a national abortion ban.
Strategic outreach to surge voters. We've already identified more than 11 million surge voters—those who have shown they will vote for Democrats but do not vote consistently. Four million of these are in key states, and 1.5 million of those are contactable by phone or email. We're laser-focused on those 1.5 million voters; if we can sway even a small fraction of them to vote, it may be enough to tip the election in our favor.
Efforts to create a unified front. Amid the current political turmoil, clarity and unity have never been more important. If young voters divide their votes between Democrats and third-party spoilers, it could lead to a nightmare scenario, and we can't let that happen. That's why we're calling on every progressive to unite and ensure that our collective voice is heard loud and clear at the ballot box.

We can succeed—we've defeated Trump in 2020 and stopped a "red wave" in 2022. But the bad news is that we are significantly behind in our election plan fundraising.

Can we count on you to help us catch up by donating $9 today?

Thanks for all you do.

–Mohammad, Ankur, Mona, Isbah, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "The Ex-Bernie Sanders Pollster Raising Alarms About R.F.K. Jr.'s Appeal Among Latinos and Young Voters," The New York Times, April 19, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/189695?t=4&akid=381204%2E40999114%2EfHkYNY

2. "RFK Jr.'s quest to get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states," CBS News, April 20, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/189696?t=6&akid=381204%2E40999114%2EfHkYNY

3. "Meet the Big Money Moguls Behind RFK's Quest to Unseat Biden," Rolling Stone, February 26, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/188533?t=8&akid=381204%2E40999114%2EfHkYNY

4. Post on X by Lis Smith, April 4, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/189146?t=10&akid=381204%2E40999114%2EfHkYNY

5. "The Ex-Bernie Sanders Pollster Raising Alarms About R.F.K. Jr.'s Appeal Among Latinos and Young Voters," The New York Times, April 19, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/189695?t=12&akid=381204%2E40999114%2EfHkYNY

6. Ibid.

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