Folks, I’m not one to sugarcoat tough news, so here it is:

I just got some updated fundraising numbers, and things aren’t so peachy right now.

We’ve been pounding the pavement and making calls, but our efforts just haven’t bore fruit, and we’re running out of time to lay the groundwork to expand our Democratic Senate majority.

Ohio is ripe for the taking, folks. Can you chip in $25 to help us ramp up our ground game and flip Ohio blue?

JD’s billionaire backers and dark money super PACs are rotting our politics to the core, folks.

That’s why my campaign is built around 350,000 grassroots supporters, not a handful of ultra-wealthy extremists trying to put their thumbs on the scales.

This fundraising slump is the pits, but there’s still time to turn things around and pull out a win in this impossibly close race. Can I count on you to chip in just $25 to expand our Democratic Senate majority and make politics more fruitful for working families?

Thanks, folks—I really a-peach-iate it (I’m so sorry).

—Tim Ryan