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Dear John,

In our seven-year history, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) Action
Fund has never endorsed a candidate for public office. We’ve always remained
non-partisan. Until today.

Vice President Joe Biden called Donald Trump a “climate arsonist” last week. The
President denies the basic science of climate change even as three million acres
of California forests go up in smoke. He denies climate change even as
hurricanes rage worldwide.

Joe Biden, instead, has a plan to get America’s power grid off fossil fuels by
the year 2035. He’ll create two million new jobs in the process, alleviating the
COVID-19 recession.

So it’s time to be partisan. It’s time to choose sides. This election is too
important.

Today, the CCAN Action Fund is announcing its wholehearted endorsement of Joe
Biden for President of the United States.

CCAN Action Fund has never endorsed a political candidate before. Help us elect
Joe Biden. Help us defeat Donald Trump, the “climate arsonist.” Pledge your
support today.
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We agree with the esteemed magazine Scientific American. Last week the magazine
endorsed Biden, ending its own 175-year run of not embracing candidates. The
editorial board wrote, “The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has
badly damaged the U.S. and its people…It's time to move Trump out and elect
Biden, who has a record of following the data and being guided by science.”

Joe Biden acknowledges that the rampant wildfires and rolling blackouts out West
are driven by fossil fuel combustion. He understands and accepts that 100-degree
temperatures in the Arctic this summer and a record hurricane forecast in the
Atlantic are the results of manmade climate change.

Joe Biden also knows that for every dollar invested in the solution – clean
energy – three times more jobs are created than in fossil fuels.

But we have to get Biden elected first. And that will be no easy task. The first
step is to ignore the polls. The website FiveThirtyEight gives Trump a 25
percent chance of winning right now. A one-in-four chance. How do we sleep at
night, given the stakes? FiveThirtyEight also says that if Trump wins Florida –
where he is neck and neck with Biden – his chance of winning the full election
is 57%!

CCAN Action Fund has never endorsed a political candidate before. Please help us
defeat Donald Trump, the “climate arsonist.” Help us elect the Biden-Harris
ticket. Choose one or more ways to volunteer with us today.
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Or, if you don't have time to volunteer, click here to make a donation to
support this effort instead.
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Here’s what Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Sunday after the
tragic passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “Our climate is on the line…and
so we need to make sure that we mobilize on an unprecedented scale. We all need
to be more courageous…we all must act in unprecedented ways to make sure that
our rights are stabilized.”

CCAN Action Fund is heeding that call, making our first-ever presidential
endorsement today. But as AOC says, it’s not just about the President. We need a
new U.S. Senate as well if we are going to save our climate and preserve our
shared values of quality health care, labor union rights, and racial justice.

Which is why, today, CCAN Action Fund is also endorsing in two key U.S. Senate
races here on the East Coast. We passionately endorse North Carolina Democratic
Candidate Cal Cunningham over incumbent Republican Thom Tillis. In Maine, we
endorse Democrat Sara Gideon over incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins.
Democratic victories in these Senate races will help create a Democratic
majority in the next Congress to help pass transformative climate legislation in
2021. Sign up to volunteer with us and we’ll show you how you can help in both
Senate races.

CCAN Action Fund has never endorsed a political candidate before. Please help us
defeat Donald Trump, the “climate arsonist.” Help us elect Joe Biden. Pledge to
volunteer.
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There are just 42 days before the election. People are already voting in eight
states, including North Carolina. No one is going to do the hard work for us. WE
have to do it. WE have to be courageous. WE have to organize at an unprecedented
level.

Are you ready to work? Are you ready to win? Are you ready to save our climate?
Volunteer today with the CCAN Action Fund.

Sincerely,

Mike Tidwell
Executive Director
CCAN Action Fund

P.S. It’s national voter registration day. Check in with your friends and family
& make sure they’ve registered to vote!

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The mission of the CCAN Action Fund is to effect change in public policy at
local, state and national levels to directly address the threat of global
warming. Through voter education, lobbying and participation in the electoral
process, we seek to move our country into a leadership position on the most
urgent global issue of our time — the climate crisis.
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