Hi, John. This is Nelini, WFP’s Director of Strategy and Partnerships.

I'm emailing because we just wrapped up our final Live Q&As with presidential candidates, and I wanted to share some of the things that I thought made these interviews so special and important, both for me personally and for us as a movement.

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Okay. Here’s a few key things that I thought made these Q&As so great:

We had more than half a million views across our five nights of interviews with Elizabeth Warren, Julián Castro, Bernie Sanders, Bill de Blasio, and Cory Booker over the past two weeks. People really wanted these types of venues to learn more about the candidates, and we were happy to do it;
WFP members from all over the country asked thoughtful and tough questions that really brought the best out of each candidate. We didn’t ask the types of questions that you’d see on cable news, or let corporate sponsors influence us. Instead, we invited WFP members, activists, movement leaders, residents of public housing, and other people you would never normally hear from in these types of venues to interact directly with the candidates running for the highest office in the land;
We touched on topics the media loves to ignore, like affordable housing, ending cash bail, equity and justice for Black and indigenous people, workers’ rights, the threat of rising white nationalism, and more issues that deserve a platform regardless of whether pundits on cable news talk about them;
We showed just how far our movement has shifted the debate. Just a few years ago, ideas like the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, a $15 minimum wage, and ending student debt were called “radical.” Now, we’ve got an entire field of candidates running on and responding to OUR ideas; and
We’re now one step closer to endorsing a candidate for 2020. And that means we’re one step closer to organizing our asses off to defeat Donald Trump and bring an unapologetically progressive vision to the White House.

Together, we are changing the shape of the national debate. We’re bringing the conversation to actual working families across America. We're bringing real people's voices to the candidates themselves. And in the coming weeks and months, we’re going to keep needing your help to expand these efforts:

Make a grassroots contribution today and help us reach our $50,000 end-of-month goal. Providing forums like these takes significant resources, and we’re organizing day and night to do even more to elect better leaders and hold candidates accountable to their constituents.

Unfortunately, Senator Kamala Harris's campaign would not schedule a Live Q&A with us, and as such will no longer be part of our endorsement process. That means that the Working Families Party will soon be deciding between the following five candidates for our endorsement: Cory Booker, Bill de Blasio, Julián Castro, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

We’ll be in touch after Labor Day about some exciting next steps in our 2020 endorsement process. In the meantime, you can text WFP2020 to 738674 to make sure you get the latest updates.

In solidarity,

Nelini Stamp
Working Families Party

P.S. I couldn't end this email without sharing a few behind-the-scenes pics from our WFP2020 Q&As! If you missed any of them, you can watch all five interviews with the candidates in full here.

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