John — After so many years of watching our state get stripped for parts, Missourians already know what it's like to have billionaire families and corporate elites call the shots.
So in our last ad before Tuesday, our people-powered movement is sending a clear message: No matter how many millions our opponent puts into false attack ads, Missouri is NOT for sale.
Two weeks ago, Trudy Busch Valentine’s team was sharing a poll that gave her a double-digit lead after she skipped debates and dumped millions from her family fortune into TV ads. But then we started running our own ads — funded by our people-powered movement — and we cut that lead down to 3%.
When I say “people-powered,” I mean it. FEC filings from last quarter showed our share of small-dollar donor support was among the highest in the entire country. Meanwhile, Trudy’s campaign ranked alongside Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
And that’s not the only thing that my top primary opponent has in common with Joe Manchin, either. Trudy and her estates have profited for decades from the same forces tearing our country apart — defense contractors, Big Pharma, Wall Street Banks, and even the NRA.
Thanks to our broken campaign finance rules, she’s now using those profits to dump millions into her campaign during the final weeks of our primary in a desperate attempt to buy the Democratic nomination.
She’s given her campaign more than $5 MILLION from her family’s billion-dollar fortune since launching her campaign just a few months ago — spending big on a barrage of false attack ads about me and this grassroots movement during the final week before our August 2 primary.
What makes all of this even worse? Trudy has no chance at winning what should be a uniquely flippable seat for Democrats in November:
You don’t just have to take my word for it. Here’s how the St. Louis Post-Dispatch summed up Trudy’s chances in this race: "Trudy Busch Valentine came off as unprepared and unconvincing. She would not fare well in a debate against the likes of Greitens or Schmitt — which might explain why she refuses to appear in a television debate against Kunce."
The contrast in this race couldn’t be clearer. On August 2, Missouri voters have two options:
So here’s where we stand: Trudy is outspending us on TV ads by 4-1, but our progress in the polls shows our message is cutting through. So our goal isn't about matching her endless spending on false attack ads — we just need to raise enough to continue getting our message in front of voters.
We’re in the final stretch before our August 2 primary — and your support right now is the only way we’ll be able to keep pushing past all the noise of Trudy’s false attack ads. So I’m asking:
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Let's do this,
Lucas Kunce
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