I had to review some tough updates today about our make-or-break Senate race – and because I know you care as much as I do about protecting our majority, I'm going to be brutally honest with you:

The experts at FiveThirtyEight increased my chances of losing after McConnell's super PAC started blanketing the Nevada airwaves with vicious attack ads against me.

So yesterday, I made a decision to launch the most ambitious goal of our campaign: raise $500,000 in just 48 hours. But according to what I just read, we didn't even get 31% of the way there.

Thankfully, my friend James Carville just threw us a lifeline: He rallied a group of Democratic donors to TRIPLE-MATCH all gifts, but only until 11:‌59 p.m. So please, will you take advantage of this limited-time opportunity to have your dollar go three times as far? Rush $5 (becomes $15!) so I can gain the resources necessary to pull ahead and defend Nevada and our Senate majority.

With only a few weeks to go in our race that WILL decide Senate control, multiple recent polls show my Trump-endorsed opponent ahead by a single point. As somebody who has fought and won close races before, I KNOW we can protect this seat and our majority. But Mitch McConnell and his allies are already spending more than $50 million to defeat me, which means the only way we can fight back and win is with a surge in grassroots resources.

That's why we set this ambitious and unprecedented fundraising goal – and I know we can reach it, but only if you step up. I truly have nowhere else to turn. Please, will you donate $5 to have it TRIPLE-MATCHED so I can defeat my extremist opponent, protect Nevada's critical seat and defend our razor-thin Democratic Senate majority?

You're my only hope. Thank you so much for being a part of my grassroots team and giving what you can at critical moments like this.

¡La lucha sigue! The fight continues!

Catherine