This is going to be a slightly longer email, I hope you’ll stick with me.

I sat down with Pod Save America to talk to them about how we have a chance to flip Mississippi, John. Here’s what I told them:

I am out there on the ground listening to voters, asking them: “What matters to you?”

The number one answer: “Someone who does what they say they’re going to do.”

Being a Senator isn’t about being a flashy celebrity – it’s about the voters, and how we make their lives better. We have to make sure they can trust the government again.

So when I see Cindy Hyde-Smith going off to Las Vegas to stay in a luxury hotel and eat at fancy restaurants using campaign dollars, that makes me mad. It’s just another example of the DC corruption that tells Mississippi voters that they don’t matter. We’ve got to go in a new direction.

And that can’t just be a flashy campaign coming in every few years and running 30-second commercials. We can’t advertise our way out of this moment.

We need leaders who can go back and talk to voters. Meet them in their communities. Speak to them about the issues that matter to them.

That’s exactly what we’ve been doing in this campaign, and it’s working. Recent polling shows that Cindy Hyde-Smith and I are in a statistical tie.

Now this work isn’t easy, but thanks to you, we’ve been able to run an aggressive voter outreach campaign. We are targeting voters in all 82 counties – nobody is getting left on the sidelines.

But I am under no illusions that this is going to be an easy road to November. Cindy Hyde-Smith still has a massive fundraising head start on us.

We are doing everything we can to close that gap. But our ability to do so is tied to how much we are able to raise from emails like this one.

Can I count on you to donate today and help us prove that we’re ready to flip Mississippi blue in November?

Thank you,

Scott Colom