Hi — Tammy Baldwin here. I know it’s getting late on a Friday, so I’ll get right to it.

I just got off the phone with my campaign manager, who let me know that we’ve seen a major dip in grassroots donations today. With folks logging off for the weekend, we’re worried we could fall short of our end-of-quarter fundraising goal.

Now, I’m not going to be alarmist or tell you that the sky is falling because we’re falling behind. All is not lost if we come up short.

But the truth is, the goals we set really do matter in a race as expensive as ours — and missing them will have consequences.

As the polls tighten in this toss up race, we may be forced to pull down our ads or halt new reservations that allow us to get our message in front of voters in the final weeks of this election.

I’m hoping that we won’t have to make any of these difficult decisions, and that we can keep our foot on the gas in our fight to defend this Senate seat from my self-funding opponent. But to do that, I’ll need your help.

I can’t win this race without you. Will you chip in any amount before our FEC public fundraising deadline to help us get back on track so that we can defend Wisconsin’s battleground Senate seat?

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I’m grateful that I can count on you in moments like this.

— Tammy