During last week's debate, Cory spoke to his lived experiences and how they differentiate him in the field. Read about some of these experiences below, then please consider chipping in a few dollars to send him all the way to the White House.

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Friend,

If you tuned into this week's debate, you heard me speak to how the experiences I've had throughout my life inform the policies I fight for every single day as a senator and as a presidential candidate. But it's hard to say everything I'd like to in 75-seconds or less on a debate stage, so I'd like to take a few minutes here to share some of the moments that helped shape me.

After I graduated from law school, my father asked me what I wanted to do with my life. He said to me, "Son, you got more degrees than the month of July, but you're not hot." He noted that it's not how many degrees you have that matters, but rather how you use them to help people. I chose to pay it forward.

I had moved to a low-income neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, a city I still call home today. I provided free legal services for families who couldn't afford it as a tenants' rights lawyer. I learned that despite all of our very real differences as Americans, we share common interests, a common cause, and a common destiny. That we cannot just listen to each other, we must see each other in order to understand each other.

During my time on the Newark Municipal Council, I saw how the power of the people is greater than the people in power. I learned that legislating demands you have a working relationship with your colleagues. That no matter how much you disagree with them, you must seek common ground if you want to get things done that make people's lives better.

When I was elected mayor of Newark in 2006, I took these lessons with me. For more than seven years, I fought for a city that had gone decades with far too little national attention and investment. A city of incredible people and beauty, but with a government that had long failed to serve it. And I led that same city through a recession that had drastic effects on communities across the country.

And in 2013, I was elected to be the first African-American to ever represent New Jersey in the Senate, and only the fourth popularly elected African-American to serve in the Senate in our nation's history. I went right to work to bring people together to accomplish things many said were impossible. I've helped lead the passage of landmark criminal justice reform legislation, and have been on the front line of efforts to increase wages, expand economic opportunity, and protect the rights of all Americans to breathe clean air and drink clean water.

I'm reminded of these milestones every day on the campaign trail, and I couldn't be more thankful for the road I traveled and the experiences that continue to shape my policy agenda today -- the same lived experiences I'll bring to the Oval Office as president.

If you're with me in this fight, please consider chipping in today.

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Thanks,
Cory

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