 John, As Election day gets closer, I’ve been thinking more and more about Election Day in 2016. I woke up that morning feeling excited and light—I really thought Donald Trump didn’t have a shot and, even though Hillary Clinton was far from my favorite candidate, I knew there was a lot that youth movements could win with her in the White House. I voted in the morning, went to work, then sat down in front of CNN with my roommates to watch the results come in. I wasn’t worried at all. Tens of thousands of other people like you and me did the same thing, and we lost by just 80,000 votes in three states. We’ve got to do everything in our power to get every voter we know and thousands of voters we don’t know to turn out to the polls. Research shows that this direct, person to person recruitment is the most effective way to boost turnout on Election Day. It’s really easy, you can do it while following COVID-19 safety guidelines, and it works. In 2016, Donald Trump won some key states by unbelievably small margins. On average, a team of three people who vote triple at a polling place can contact nearly fifty people in just one hour. The more volunteers we have for Election Day, the more voters our movement can reach. In just a few hours, you and a couple friends can encourage hundreds of voters to show up and kick Trump out of the White House forever. Election Day 2020 is the next big step in the fight for the Green New Deal. I know our movement is ready for the challenge. This is the moment we’ve been waiting for. We can do this, together. Deirdre |