Friend —

I want to take you behind the curtain of some very real decisions being made right now, ahead of our final FEC fundraising deadline, about our race in Michigan.

These are not the decisions WE are making.

The decisions I am talking about are being made in fancy glass conference rooms in tall buildings in Washington, D.C., where a handful of Republican strategists are taking stock of the Senate map and making decisions about where they can deploy their vast resources most effectively to flip a seat red.

And that is where our last end-of-quarter FEC fundraising deadline comes in on September 30th, when every candidate is legally obligated to report how much money they have raised and how much they have spent.

You see, one of the key pieces of data that GOP super PACs will be looking at is the strength of our fundraising. It will give them an indication of our support and our ability to fight back if they spend additional dark money on our race.

There are certainly clear indications that they are zeroing in on Michigan. New TV ad reservations. Stray comments about internal polling. Articles in Fox News suggesting that we are vulnerable. CNN has said we are 4th most likely to flip. And an upwards of $20 million already spent in super PAC attack ads against me.

It may not seem like a big deal from the outside, but they serve almost as a bat signal to outside organizations: spend here.

We are looking to file a strong report, not only so that we can fight back when these conservative organizations flood the state with ads, but also to try to deter them with our strength and have them invest those dollars somewhere else. So I am asking: will you chip in $3 to help us file a strong report at the end of the quarter? It’s not so much the amount that you donate, but that you donate.

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Thank you,

Elissa

PAID FOR BY ELISSA SLOTKIN FOR MICHIGAN

P.O. Box 4145
East Lansing, MI 48826

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Elissa Slotkin served in the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense. Use of her job titles and photographs during service do not imply endorsement by the Central Intelligence Agency OR the Department of Defense.