Dear MoveOn member,

On her show, Rachel Maddow called the U.S. response to the coronavirus "the worst failed national response on earth."¹

673,215 cases.² 34,384 deaths—more than any other country worldwide.³ Yesterday, two Americans died about every minute from the coronavirus.⁴ And the virus continues to spread with astonishing speed in most places.

Maddow decried the "patch work, late, denialist, fantasists, uncoordinated, inept, unscientific, confusion in national policy" as leading to this "run-away disaster."⁵

Yet, 48% of Americans still approve of Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, according to the average of the most recent polls.⁶

Many Americans simply don't know that it didn't have to be this way.

John, we have to hold Trump accountable. That's why MoveOn is working to get the truth out to voters in battleground states about Trump's failed response to the crisis.

MoveOn's Creative Lab, which has created many powerful ads seen by millions of Americans, has swung into action to produce hard-hitting TV ads holding Trump accountable. After MoveOn members chipped in an incredible $150,000 in the last 24 hours, we've started to purchase ad time on Hulu and other streaming TV services. The ads will target voters in battleground states who approve of Trump's handling of the crisis. But to really blanket the airwaves and reach the voters we need to reach, we need to raise another $125,000 by the end of the week.

Will you chip in $5 a month to put TV ads on the air in battleground states and keep them going for as long as it takes to hold Donald Trump accountable for his catastrophic mishandling of the coronavirus?

Yes, I'll chip in monthly.

No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.

Trump's failed response to the pandemic is costing American lives and devastating the economy. A just-published, bombshell Washington Post investigative report, based on interviews with 22 senior administration officials, lawmakers, public health officials, and other Republicans in frequent touch with the White House, exposes the Trump White House as having "no plan:"

no plan "for getting vital medical supplies to states, which are left to fight among themselves or seek favors from Trump;"

no plan for widespread testing and contact tracing;

no plan "for when or how to reopen parts of the economy;"

no plan "for what happens if cases or deaths spike as people begin to return to work, or how to respond if the coronavirus surges again in the fall;" and

no plan "for ending the coronavirus crisis."⁷

We have to get the truth out to voters. And we need to do it right now—when Americans everywhere are tuned in to what's happening in their community and beyond more than ever before and are glued to the news to find out the latest about the virus. And then we need to keep the ads going through Election Day to hold Trump accountable.

Will you chip in $5 a month to help launch hard-hitting TV ads in battleground states on Hulu and other streaming TV services—where audience growth is exploding—to hold Donald Trump accountable and then keep ads running all the way through Election Day?

Yes, I'll chip in monthly.

No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.

Thanks for all you do.

–Nita, Amy, Ankur, Allison, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Chicago Mayor TRANSCRIPT: 4/8/20, The Rachel Maddow Show," MSNBC, April 8, 2020
http://act.moveon.org/go/119626?t=6&akid=261928%2E40999114%2EfrSTmm

2. "Coronavirus, United States," Worldometer, accessed April 16, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/119627?t=8&akid=261928%2E40999114%2EfrSTmm

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid.

5. "Chicago Mayor TRANSCRIPT: 4/8/20, The Rachel Maddow Show," MSNBC, April 8, 2020
http://act.moveon.org/go/119626?t=10&akid=261928%2E40999114%2EfrSTmm

6. "How Americans View The Coronavirus Crisis And Trump's Response," FiveThirtyEight, accessed April 16, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/119628?t=12&akid=261928%2E40999114%2EfrSTmm

7. "Trump administration has many task forces — but still no plan for beating covid-19," The Washington Post, April 11, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/119629?t=14&akid=261928%2E40999114%2EfrSTmm

Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your ongoing support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Yes, I'll chip in $5 a month.

No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.

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