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 Senate 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. And this news couldn't have come at a worse time – early voting is already underway in Nevada.

So in order to fight back, my team and I launched a goal to raise $1,000,000 before our end-of-month deadline – every dollar of it grassroots. But according to what I just read, we aren't even 75% of the way there with only hours left until the deadline.

Thankfully, my friend James Carville just threw us a lifeline: He rallied a group of Democratic donors to TRIPLE-MATCH all gifts. 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 8 days to go in the race that WILL decide Senate control, multiple recent polls show I'm in a statistical tie with my Trump-endorsed opponent. 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 $55 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 fundraising goal – and I know we can reach it, but only if you step up in this make-or-break moment. I must close this fundraising gap by 11:59 p.m. TONIGHT, so 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