We're teaming up with Robert Reich to Unite for a Progressive President. From the first votes cast in Iowa to the last votes cast at the Convention, progressives need to come together and win.
John, please support the campaign with a contribution of $23 or whatever you can afford immediately.
Why now, right before the holidays? Because the Election isn't waiting for the holidays. The first votes will be cast in just over a month.
That's why last weekend, we launched our campaign pledging to make our case to the American people on why our chosen candidate is the best chance we have to beat Trump and vowing to focus our fight for the nomination against the corporate wing, instead of each other.
On Monday, the New York Times took notice in an article with the headline: "Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Have a Problem: Each Other."
While the article featured positive arguments for each candidate by Congress members Pramila Jayapal, Ilhan Omar, and Ro Khanna to name a few, it also continued to use the tired talking points of the corporate wing trying to scare Democratic primary voters that big ideas and holding Wall Street accountable will lose on Election Day even though poll after poll shows exactly the opposite.
Listen, there are significant differences between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. No doubt.
There’s also no doubt why they’re both hated by the corporate-Wall Street wing of the Democratic Party. Both Warren and Sanders understand that our system is rigged, and that economic and political power must be reallocated from a corporate-Wall Street elite to the vast majority.
This is why the Wall Street wing is pouring money into the campaigns of some of their opponents in the Democratic primaries and why much of the corporate press is ignoring the enthusiasm they’re generating, polling that shows massive support for progressive policy solutions like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal, and keeps propping up the talking points of the corporate Democrats who say Bernie or Warren are too progressive to win.
We can not underestimate the power of the corporate wing and we won’t beat them if we are divided and fighting each other.
DFA members on the front lines, from Iowa to South Carolina, from New Hampshire to Nevada, from Super Tuesday all the way to the Convention in Milwaukee, are working to unite progressives together in the fight to defeat the corporate wing and make sure a progressive wins the nomination. Please contribute $23 immediately to fuel the campaign.
That fact is it’s Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren who have the best chance of beating Trump. Presidential elections are determined by turnout and over a third of eligible voters don’t vote. They only go to the polls if they’re motivated. And what motivates people most is a candidate who stands for average people and against power and privilege.
The real divide in America today is establishment versus anti-establishment. Voters are looking for a candidate that understand America needs real change not a return to the status quo.
This is why both Warren and Bernie are best positioned to beat Trump -- and alter the power structure in America so we don’t invite more demagogues like him in the future.
Only two things stand in our way. The first is the corporate elite using fear to persuade Democrats that neither Warren or Sanders can defeat Trump. They say Democrats should put up a weak “moderate” instead, which if they succeed, will increase the odds Trump gets a second term.
The second danger is that supporters of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders will wage war on each other, and that will take both of them down.
Working together, we won’t let that happen.
It’s true that only one of them can be the Democratic nominee, but we must defeat the corporate wing first. There’s time to eventually come together behind one of them and when we do, we will have the votes to take the White House, flip the Senate, and begin the work of making this great nation work for the many, rather than the few.
It’s time for progressives to unite. We need to work together to win. We need to make our case to the American people on why our chosen candidate is the best chance we have to beat Trump and we need to focus our fight for the nomination against the corporate wing, not each other.
Join us by contributing to support the campaign right now.
-Charles
Charles Chamberlain, Chair
Democracy for America
