Dear MoveOn member,
Donald Trump's re-election prospects are plummeting. A poll conducted
after his unhinged debate performance showed him trailing Biden by 14
points—and that was before news that he had contracted COVID after months
of flouting rudimentary safety measures like mask-wearing.^1
If Trump can't win the election, his path to hold on to power would be to
attempt to ignore the democratic vote and overturn the election results.
But here's the thing: Donald Trump doesn't get to decide who our next
president is. We do. People are already voting by the millions across the
country (including by mail!).^2 It is critical that everyone vote and that
we vote as early as possible. It is also equally important that we demand
that every vote be counted.
[ [link removed] ]Can you sign up to Protect the Results and commit to taking nonviolent
action if Trump seeks to overthrow the will of the people?
At last week's debate Donald Trump again failed to clear the most basic
bar of democratic leadership: He refused to honor the will of the people
in the election's outcome.^3 He knows that people voting early in this
election are less likely to support him, so he is trying to delegitimize
our votes.
Fortunately, the outcome of the election isn't up to Donald Trump. It's up
to us. MoveOn members like you are giving our all to win this election.
And Trump knows that. He knows that if we all come together, he's going to
lose—so he's desperately posturing to sow confusion.
Together, we're stronger than Trump. That's why, in addition to our
full-throttled get-out-the-vote effort over the next 28 days, we are also
committed to safeguarding our democracy in case Trump refuses to accept
defeat. [ [link removed] ]Can you sign up with Protect the Results and commit to taking
nonviolent action if Trump seeks to block our votes or deny the election
results?
MoveOn is joining Indivisible, Stand Up America, the Service Employees
International Union, United We Dream Action, Sierra Club, among more than
100 other partners, in a concerted effort to protect the results, because
we know Trump is desperate not to be revealed for what he is, a loser who
is incapable of being the president we need—and we have to be just as
determined and prepared to protect the outcome of the record-high voting
we'll see this year.
Trump's comments at the debate are only the latest evidence that he is
flailing as he sees the increasing energy to get him out of office—from
the hundreds of thousands of people newly registered to vote to the
widespread acknowledgement of his failures on COVID-19 and the economy to
the record turnout in early voting in states where people are already
casting their ballots.^4,5,6 Polls following the debate showed him
struggling further, and through his COVID-19 infection so far, he's shown
he will continue to be erratic and dangerous in his words and actions.
We have the power to defeat him and elect a new president and Senate that
will move us forward together. We're mobilizing MoveOn members across the
country to generate massive turnout over the next 28 days in order to win
by a commanding margin. Our vote is power, and they fear that power, which
is why they are trying so hard to stop us and plant the idea that Trump
gets to decide whose votes count.
So even as you give your all over the next 28 days to get out the vote,
and as you push the Senate to stop Trump from ramming through a Supreme
Court nominee (including demanding Democrats use every tool they have to
stall this blitz), you can also make a plan for November 4 to protect the
results.
[ [link removed] ]Sign up for Protect the Results now to commit to joining a local action
near you after November 3 to make sure that everyone is counted.
People everywhere are preparing to overcome Trump's antidemocratic
ambitions. Eleven Democratic governors, including the governors of
battleground states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, have
already responded to Trump's effort to undermine democracy, by committing
to ensure that every vote cast in their states is counted.^7 But we've got
to do our part, from now until the election is called, to make sure that
everyone votes and that those votes, not Trump himself, decide the next
president.
Thanks for all you do.
–David, Mana, Chloe, Justin, and the rest of the team
P.S. Like we said, before we worry about protecting results, we have to
achieve the results we want by getting everyone we know to be a voter!
[ [link removed] ]Sign up to be a Vote Mobilizer today to help make sure your friends and
family members in key states are voters.
Sources:
1. "Biden's national lead over Trump jumps to 14 points after debate in
NBC News/WSJ Poll," NBC News, October 4, 2020
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2. "More than 3 million general election ballots cast so far in November
election," CNN, October 6, 2020
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3. "'I hope it's a fair election': Trump won't commit to not declaring
election win prematurely," USA Today, September 30, 2020
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4. "Texas Sets Voter Registration Record: 1.5 Million Have Signed Up Since
2016," Texas Standard, September 23, 2020
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5. "How Trump let Covid-19 win," Vox, September 22, 2020
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6. "Early voting turnout hits record numbers in Virginia," The Washington
Post, September 23, 2020
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7. "Whitmer, Democratic governors: If Trump loses the election, 'he must
leave office,'" The Detroit News, September 30, 2020
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damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the
nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that
we must never give up on. And to do it we need your ongoing support, now
more than ever. Will you stand with us?
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