Samuel --

Seven years ago, the American auto industry -- an icon of our nation's ingenuity and middle class prosperity -- was on the brink of collapse. Plants were closing and hundreds of thousands of workers were getting laid off. When I came into office, some folks told me that it was just too late to turn things around. But I knew that wasn't the case. We wouldn't turn our backs on American workers or American manufacturing.

And last year, we saw American auto sales hit an all-time high. I went to the Detroit Auto Show last week to see this progress firsthand. And in that one city, I saw something that was not unlike what our whole country has gone through these past few years. We've gone from crisis to recovery to resurgence. We're on a 70-month streak of job creation, we've made historic investments in clean energy, we've changed the way we pay for college, and we've brought almost 18 million Americans into our health care system.

So when Republicans are saying that things are worse than they were before I took office, I'm not sure where they're looking. You can't lead for the future while ignoring the progress of the past. It just doesn't work that way.

Americans can do anything, Samuel. I really believe that. Even when it's challenging and it seems like things are changing around us at a faster pace than we can keep up with, I know we can do amazing things when we put our minds to it and work together. But we need leaders who have the vision to lead us forward, not drag us back. Democrats need 35,000 new grassroots donations before the end of the month, if you can, pitch in $3 or more and help us hit that goal.

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