It's official, friend: Eric Hovde is my Republican opponent in Wisconsin’s all-important Senate race.

Protecting this seat won’t be easy. To prepare for the surge of Republican spending and attacks we’ll see in the weeks ahead, our team just launched the Win Wisconsin Fund — and we set a goal of adding 10,000 founding donors in the next 48 hours!

I’ll explain why in just a moment, but first — will you split a donation between Blue Senate's Candidate Fund and my campaign to become a founding donor of our Win Wisconsin Fund and help us defend this battleground Senate seat?

Mitch McConnell’s handpicked recruit, Eric Hovde, has officially secured his party’s nomination.

My opponent has already spent $13 million of his own personal fortune to defeat me and flip this Senate seat — and it won’t stop there.

I can’t self-fund the same way my megamillionaire opponent can, but with the support of tens of thousands of grassroots donors, we can compete with Eric Hovde’s cash — and together, we can defend this seat and protect our razor-thin Democratic Senate majority.

That’s why we launched our Win Wisconsin Fund to kickoff the general election. Friend, will you split a donation between Blue Senate's Candidate Fund and my campaign today become one of our first 10,000 donors ready to keep Wisconsin blue this November?

Our campaign’s strength will be tested against Hovde’s vast self-funded resources in the weeks and months ahead. It’s grassroots power vs. big-money backing, and every single contribution makes a difference.

Thanks for standing by my side today.