Dear MoveOn member,
The latest poll by Donald Trump's own pollster put Mitch McConnell in a
virtual tie with his top Democratic opponent, who has raised
record-setting amounts of money for her campaign.^1
Now, McConnell is facing a MASSIVE backlash after he admitted that he's
"not an impartial juror" and plans "total coordination" with Trump's team
in managing the Senate impeachment trial.^2,3
And cracks are finally appearing in the Republican wall of opposition to
convicting and removing Trump in the Senate. Last week, Republican Senator
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said that she was "disturbed" by McConnell's
pledge of "total coordination" with Trump's team on impeachment.^4
McConnell's Senate seat and the GOP's control of the Senate have never
been more vulnerable than they are right now, but we still face one big
problem: McConnell's home state of Kentucky—plus other critical Senate
states, Colorado and Maine—are not key battleground states in the 2020
presidential election.
And we can't afford to take away any of the resources from our campaign to
beat Trump. That means we need to raise enough money to fund an entire
additional Senate election operation on top of everything we're doing to
beat Trump.
We MUST defeat Mitch McConnell and other GOP senators in 2020. And we MUST
NOT make cuts to our critical work to defeat Donald Trump. Will you start
a $5 a month donation to help us defeat McConnell and flip
control of the Senate in 2020—without pulling any crucial resources out of
our fight to defeat Donald Trump?
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McConnell's handling of the Trump impeachment trial has become a massive
political problem for him.
Just a few weeks ago, it was hard to imagine even one Republican senator
turning on McConnell. Now, it's the opposite. Murkowski is already calling
him out for blatantly failing to uphold his oath of office, and if he
keeps turning the Senate trial into a sham, it's not hard to imagine more
Republicans coming out against him, especially those facing tough
re-election races next year.^5
When even Senate Republicans are starting to bail on McConnell, you KNOW
he's in trouble.
McConnell also has big problems back home. Matt Bevin, the the
McConnell-backed governor of Kentucky, was recently defeated for
re-election.^6 And Amy McGrath, a McConnell opponent, is flat-out
out-fundraising McConnell.^7
McConnell's local press is awful, too. A top columnist at the Lexington,
KY, newspaper called McConnell "Kentucky's shame."^8 And a Kentucky-born
law professor just wrote a scathing op-ed in the biggest newspaper in
Kentucky, accusing him of breaking two sworn oaths—his oath of office to
defend the Constitution and the oath he will take as a juror in Trump's
trial.^9
John, it has never been more clear that we can beat Mitch
McConnell and flip control of the Senate, and we can't let this
opportunity go by. But we also can't afford to take any resources out of
the key battleground states we're working in to beat Donald Trump.
That means we need to raise enough money to fund an entire additional
Senate election effort—including advertising, staff, and all of the other
campaign infrastructure needed to ditch Mitch and end GOP control of the
Senate in 2020.
Will you become a monthly donor today and help us defeat Mitch McConnell
and flip control of the Senate in 2020—without scaling back our plans to
defeat Donald Trump? $5 a month, or whatever you can
afford, will go a long way.
[ [link removed] ]Yes, I'll chip in monthly.
[ [link removed] ]No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.
Thanks for all you do.
–Chris, Robert, Jayne, Liia, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "McGrath raises nearly $11 million in third quarter for bid to unseat
McConnell," The Hill, October 10, 2019
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2. "Mitch McConnell: 'I'm not an impartial juror' ahead of Senate
impeachment trial," CNN, December 17, 2019
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3. "G.O.P. Senator ‘Disturbed’ by McConnell’s ‘Total Coordination’ with
White House," The New York Times, December 25, 2019
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4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. "Republican Matt Bevin concedes defeat in Kentucky governor's race,"
CNN, November 14, 2019
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7. "Amy McGrath Is Now Officially Challenging Mitch McConnell," Mother
Jones, December 28, 2019
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8. "McConnell is Kentucky’s shame, in impeachment proceedings and
everything else," Lexington Hearald Leader, December 20, 2019
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9. "Law professor writes Kentucky newspaper op-ed accusing McConnell of
breaking two oaths," The Hill, December 27, 2019
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ever. Will you stand with us?
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