Hello,

This isn’t the news we were hoping to have to share, but last night we fell over $6,000 short of our $50,000 mid-month goal and what we need to defeat Chuck Grassley and turn Iowa blue.

This is the first time we have EVER missed a fundraising goal. So we’re emailing you now with an urgent last minute request to ask you to help us come up with the shortfall and close the gap before midnight tomorrow.

Democrat Mike Franken isn’t taking money from corporate PACs or special interests like Big Pharma and the NRA like his opponent Chuck Grassley. Instead, he’s building a grassroots campaign funded by people like you.

When we set goals like the one we just missed, they’re real. We can’t afford to come up even a dollar short, or we could risk losing our slim Democratic majority in the Senate.

In order to be in a strong enough place to take on all of Mitch McConnell’s Super PAC money and turn Iowa blue, we need to raise the remaining $6,000 in the next 48 hours. So we have to ask:

Will you make a $5 donation right now (or whatever you can afford) so that we can make up this fundraising gap, help Democrat Mike Franken defeat Chuck Grassley, and protect our Senate Democratic majority? We cannot afford to fall short of this goal again – not when Chuck Grassley is taking millions of dollars from corporate PACs and special interests.

This campaign is fueled and funded by real people like you. Every dollar you can give today will help Mike fight back against the Super PAC lies and win next November.

Thank you for being a critical part of the campaign,

Team Franken