John,
Late last night, Elon Musk officially filed with the FEC to spend some of his nearly $1 trillion in Michigan to help Mike Rogers and stop us from winning. Musk spent big in 2024, and we saw a red wave put Trump back in the White House.
We’re already being outspent and out-advertised. I’m worried it could get worse. And the thing about Elon is he has virtually unlimited money. He could spend like 0.5% of his net worth, and it would change this whole race.
But what we showed in the primary, where we were outspent 11-to-1, is that we can still beat the big money guys if we put up good enough numbers of our own.
So, look, I know folks like us can’t donate millions of dollars like they can. We don’t have to. Because if something like 1-in-4 of the people reading this email decide, “You know what? I can step up and give $10,” we will be able to raise enough to counter their attacks and spread our good word to the voters of Michigan.
These guys like Elon, they’re not spending against me because they think our policies are wrong. They’re spending because they think they can put in a few million dollars and get back a whole lot more in tax breaks. They’re spending to protect their own pocketbooks.
I'm not telling you this to scare you. We can get outspent and still win. But we can't get outspent by any number and still win.
If Elon buys every ad break between now and November, most Michiganders will only ever hear his version of me. They won’t hear our message. And then it won't matter how good our ideas are, because people won’t be hearing them at all.
So your donations right now, and the ones you’ve given in the past, mean absolutely everything.
Please, help us counter this Elon influx. Be one of those to give today.
I’m so grateful to this team. You are the reason we have a fighting chance. Even up against the richest guy on the planet, the president of the United States, the corporate overlords, and the military-industrial complex.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
Abdul
