Trump is mobilizing his supporters to stop votes from being counted.

Dear Friend,

Donald Trump is literally trying to "stop the count," because he is behind in electoral votes and trailing Joe Biden by 3.5 million votes nationally.1

Trump has not only deployed a legal team to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and other swing states to throw out as many ballots as possible, but he’s encouraged his followers to gather at vote-counting places and demand that counting be stopped where he is ahead.2,3

We must protect our right to vote—and this is what Demand Progress was made for. We have spent a decade fighting for a government that is accountable to the people. We work with policy and legal experts inside Capitol Hill and in the states, as well as mobilizing the grassroots of this country to prevent Trump and his army of lawyers and right-wing goons from stealing the election.

Will you donate to make sure that Trump can’t stop every ballot from being counted?

If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately:

Donate $10

Donate $20

Donate $40

Or, donate another amount

Right now, eyes are on Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia as they count the ballots that are still coming in.

Trump already succeeded in stopping hundreds of thousands of ballots from being counted by installing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to slow down the mail. The USPS says that ballots that are legitimate and eligible to be counted are still arriving at boards of election across the nation, and we know that as many as 7% of all mail-in ballots didn’t reach their destination in time to be counted for this election.4 It’s voter suppression of massive proportion.

Now Trump is suing Pennsylvania to stop the count even though the courts have already said the state can include ballots postmarked by November 3.5 He’s suing for a recount in Wisconsin, and is contesting ballots in Georgia and Michigan as well.6

Meanwhile, there have been mobs of people congregating at vote-tallying centers in Detroit and Phoenix, yelling, “Stop the count” and trying to intimidate poll workers into subverting our democracy.7

The fight for our democracy is on. Will you donate?

Trump has said over and over again that he wants all mail-in ballots to be considered invalid.8 And he’s counting on his new Supreme Court justice, Amy Coney Barrett, to deliver the presidency to him.

Let’s be clear what we’re talking about. In North Carolina, a million ballots were mailed in.9 In Florida, more than 4.5 million ballots have been returned.10 In Wisconsin, close to 2 million ballots have been returned.11 These are all battleground states where the margin of victory will be in the thousands, not millions.

This is not an exaggeration: If Trump succeeds in winning by throwing out millions of ballots, he will have succeeded in engineering a coup of the American government.

We need to organize millions of voices ready to declare that they won’t stand for their votes being discarded. This is the campaign of our democracy, and it’s all hands on deck.

We’re starting by driving tens of thousands of emails to election officials and Congress. calling on them to protect every single vote. Will you chip in?

Thanks for standing with us.

Robert Cruickshank,
Demand Progress

Sources:

1. Associated Press, "Biden pushes closer to win as Trump presses legal threats," November 5, 2020
2. Associated Press, "Trump sues in 3 states, laying ground for contesting outcome," November 5, 2020
3. Chicago Tribune, "Trump supporters converge on vote centers in Michigan, Arizona," November 5, 2020
4. The Washington Post, "USPS data shows thousands of mailed ballots missed Election Day deadlines," November 4, 2020
5. Associated Press, "Trump sues in 3 states, laying ground for contesting outcome," November 5, 2020
6. Chicago Tribune, "Trump supporters converge on vote centers in Michigan, Arizona," November 5, 2020
7. Ibid.
8. Axios, "Scoop: Trump's plan to declare premature victory," November 1, 2020
9. North Carolina State Board of Elections, "N.C. Absentee Statistics for the 2020 General Election," November 1, 2020
10. Florida Division of Elections, "Vote-by-Mail Request & Early Voting Statistics," accessed November 5, 2020
11. Wisconsin Elections Commission, "Absentee Ballot Report - November 3, 2020 General Election," November 1, 2020

PAID FOR BY DEMAND PROGRESS (DemandProgress.org) and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Contributions are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. Join our online community on Facebook or Twitter.

You can unsubscribe from this list at any time.