Hello,

After a brand-new poll from the gold standard Des Moines Register showed me just THREE points behind Chuck Grassley here in Iowa, my campaign saw an incredible surge of donations. But since then, our online fundraising has really slowed down…

I’ll be frank: This is really not good. Fox “News” and Chuck Grassley are shamelessly attacking me and my military service, blanketing the state in attack ads, and we cannot fight back and overcome the lies if we don’t have the resources to turn out our voters.

All the polls show this will be an incredibly close race – an historic low 46% of Iowa voters want to reelect Chuck Grassley – and if we win and turn Iowa blue, Democrats are guaranteed to hold onto our Senate majority for another two years.

But I’m not taking a dime of corporate PAC money, so if we’re going to send Grassley packing and turn Iowa blue this November, I need grassroots donors like you to give right now:

I am urgently asking: Please, will you chip in $5 or more right now – every dollar you can afford before our critical Get-Out-The-Vote deadline – to help me defeat Chuck Grassley, turn Iowa blue, and protect our Democratic Senate majority?

Whether or not we turn things around now could chart the course for the final 6 days of this campaign.

Thank you for stepping up during this important moment,

Mike Franken, U.S. Navy (ret.)