Friend –

I am writing today to humbly ask if you can make a $5 contribution to help flip Wisconsin's Senate seat and expand the Democratic majority.

Let me be clear: 

Flipping Wisconsin's Senate seat in less than two weeks is not a given. It's going to take an incredible amount of work to make it possible. 

You can count on me to work as hard as possible to defeat Ron Johnson. But I cannot win this race alone.

I need you. A CNN poll that just came out shows me trailing by 1 point. Without you, we could lose.

So far more than 300,000 people have donated to this campaign. It means the world to me. But right now, I need you. And it’s not just me who needs you. All the people who have already donated, they need you, too. Because the only way we'll win is if we're in this together.

I am humbly asking if you can add your $5 contribution – split between my campaign and Jacky Rosen's – before our last end-of-month fundraising deadline ends. I'm counting on people like you to help flip Wisconsin's Senate seat and expand the Democratic majority.

Thank you in advance for chipping in. Running for office, especially for a Senate seat against a Republican incumbent, isn’t easy. But the stakes make the challenge well worth it. Especially when we’re in it together.

Mandela