Friend, forgive me for being blunt but I’m facing a $6,821 shortfall ahead of this major end-of-month fundraising deadline. My team pulled a list of our campaign’s most engaged supporters to receive this note, and it included you.

Here’s the reality: I’m counting on your donation to get us back on track.

Mitch McConnell and the entire Republican establishment are betting on flipping just a single seat to retake control of the Senate, and the shifting political ground makes this year especially unpredictable.

Recently, RNC Chairwoman and noted Trump apologist Ronna McDaniel helped christen a new national Republican campaign office in this state – the national GOP’s first ever office here. I won’t parse words: They are making this state, and this Senate seat, a target.

In doing so, the GOP is counting on our grassroots team to miss our fundraising goals. With Senate control on the line, they are counting on weakness. We cannot let extremist Republicans think – even for a moment – that we don’t have what it takes to win this race.

That’s why I am calling on my most engaged supporters, like you, Friend, to show the strength of this campaign: Prove to Mitch McConnell and other GOP leaders that this Senate seat will stay in Democratic hands by chipping in a donation of whatever you can spare right now.

Here’s the best link: https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/blumenthal-email

Thanks for stepping up when it’s needed most.

Dick