Biden Brings It In Michigan, Good Week Of Polling for Ds, Doing More and Worrying And Less
The Election Is Close and Competitive - No Red Waving 2024 Please
Happy Saturday all. Got a few things for you today:
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Why I Am Optimistic We Can Win - Watch my new video presentation on the 2024 election. Bottom line - voters in the West just keep voting against the far-right and the fascists and will again this November. And while we may all not agree on the path forward right now I am asking the Hopium community to lead the effort to keep our family together and stay focused on the big job ahead of us - beating Trump and throwing him and MAGA into the dustbin of history.
Polling Got Much Better For Us This Week - We just had an encouraging week of polling with Biden ahead or tied in many new polls. Biden is at 270 Electoral College votes this morning in the 538 forecast. VP Harris keeps polling at an impressive level, and is clearly bringing much to the ticket. The election is close and competitive today - no red waving 2024 please.
Inflation FELL in June, the economy is humming, Joe Biden is a very good President and America is far better off today.
The Democratic Party’s Superpower - I got this wonderful note from Hopium community member Linda Z this week, “Checking In From California” -
Greetings Simon,
From someone who hasn't written a postcard since childhood and only recently discovered what an amazing candidate Rudy Salas is through Hopium, I am deeply appreciative of your efforts to guide the ship during these stormy times. I’ve now written hundreds of postcards to Democrats from California to Ohio and am grateful to have a positive, creative outlet to channel my energy.
I know there are many, many fellow foot soldiers like me across the country; thank you for bringing us all together and giving us the nudge to turn fear and anxiety into actionable results.
I share your belief that we will prevail, although the shape of that success is yet to be determined.
Cheers,
Linda Z
A huge, big thank you to Linda Z and everyone who is working so hard right now for our democracy, for our freedoms, and for our future. All of you are the Democratic Party’s superpower, and if we keep working hard we can win this thing this November!
Biden Brings It In Michigan - Yesterday Joe Biden gave a fiery speech in Michigan which excited the Internet and got folks chanting “we got your back Joe.” Via our friends at MeidasTouch, here is the entire speech. Enjoy peeps. No matter happens in the days ahead we just have to keep fighting - no letting up.
No Joke, This Is The Summary Of The Fascist Party’s Platform: They are gathering in Milwaukee this week, and the following points are what the Orange Emperor says he is fighting for, with some notes from me:
SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION (going to shoot ‘em on sight!)
CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY (savvy Hispanic outreach strategy, Nazi-like policy, clear recipe to destroy the American economy)
END INFLATION, AND MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN (Inflation fell last month, was zero in May and Dude you had one of the worst economic track records in American history. Just stop it)
MAKE AMERICA THE DOMINANT ENERGY PRODUCER IN THE WORLD, BY FAR! (We already are, thanks to Joe Biden!)
STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER (We already are, thanks to Joe Biden!)
LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS! (Really, you think anyone is going to believe this bullshit? My tax cuts have been for me and my friends, not the rubes in my Fascist Party)
DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR
ARMS (Really, you think anyone is going believe this bullshit? I intend to end American democracy for all time and make myself a dictator like my buddies Xi, Putin, MBS and Kim)PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE, RESTORE PEACE IN EUROPE AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY -- ALL MADE IN AMERICA (end NATO, sell out Ukraine, turn Europe over to Putin)
END THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE (I am going to pardon myself, all of my friends, and jail all the prosecutors and judges who have come after us)
STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC, DEMOLISH THE FOREIGN DRUG CARTELS, CRUSH GANG VIOLENCE, AND LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDERS (both legal and undocumented immigrants commit crimes at far lower rates than native born Americans or leaders of The Fascist Party)
REBUILD OUR CITIES, INCLUDING WASHINGTON DC, MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL AGAIN (um, this has, like, already happened)
STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE OUR MILITARY, MAKING IT, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD (um, like, this has already happened, and you can’t do it without NATO dipshit!)
KEEP THE U.S. DOLLAR AS THE WORLD’S RESERVE CURRENCY
FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE (I’m lying here. I tried to cut both Social Security and Medicare every year of my Administration)
CANCEL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE AND CUT COSTLY AND BURDENSOME REGULATIONS (I want the planet to warm faster!!!!!!!!)
CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER (whatever…..)
Making July Count/We Cannot Let Up - Friends, we just did a remarkable job together here making June count. In five weeks from late May to June 30th we raised over $1m for our candidates and party committees. Many of you have been out there hustling for candidates, writing postcards, canvassing, calling and texting. We launched our Winning the House campaign which brought in more $500,000 for our 12 Hopium-endorsed candidates with the best opportunity to flip seats and help us take back the House. We added the blue dot in Nebraska to our “checkmate” state strategy, one designed to get us to 270 electoral college votes and win the election. We raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Biden-Harris, including more than $100,000 in the days after the debate. When called once again the Hopium community answered. That’s why we’ve launched a new campaign to “Make July Count” with new July 31st fundraising goals.
We cannot let up now, not for a moment. We are deep into the 2024 election and while it is summer, and we are not all on same page today, we cannot stop working to make the election everything we want it to be. So please do something this week to support this new campaign, and be on the look out for many more interviews of our endorsed House candidates in the coming days. Trying to get the remaining eight done by the Convention.
We can do this people!
Biden-Harris - $576,000 today, $650,000 goal - Donate | Volunteer | Learn More - To find a phone bank to call into the battlegrounds click on the “Events” tab on the campaign Reach app
Winning The House - $515,000 today, $600,000 goal - Donate | Volunteer | Learn More. We’ve also raising more then $40,000 into the individual House campaigns (you can either give to all 12 or each one individually)
North Carolina - $316,000 today, $400,000 goal - Donate | Volunteer | Learn More | Watch my interview with NC Dem Chair Anderson Clayton
Arizona/Ruben Gallego - $287,000 today, $350,000 goal - Donate | Volunteer | Learn More | Watch my interview with Ruben Gallego
Nebraska/Blue Dot - $117,000 today, $150,000 goal- Donate | Volunteer | Learn More | Watch my interview with NE Dem Chair Jane Kleeb
Here’s how you can do even more:
Watch our interviews with Janelle Bynum (OR-5), George Whitesides (CA-27), Kirsten Engel (AZ-06) and Andrei Cherny (AZ-01)
Volunteer for the Biden-Harris campaign - their volunteer program is really ratcheting up - check it out and sign up for a shift of calls into the battlegrounds today!
Join me and Anderson Clayton in Raleigh on Friday, July 19th by donating to the NCDP Unity Dinner and signing up here
Commit to Vote on Day 1 and get everyone you know to join you
Watch this awesome video from Nebraska Dem Chair Jane Kleeb thanking the Hopium community for the huge investment we’ve made in winning the blue dot!
Finally help me spread Hopium and grow this plucky community. Sign others up to be a Hopium subscriber at this link. Note that options for group and gift subscriptions are available to those who want to bring friends and colleagues into the Hopium community. Click on the group and gift tabs here to learn more. To update your payment information or check your renewal status follow these instructions from Substack. Let’s keep the Hopium flowing and our community growing!
Keep working hard all. Heads down, connect to your love of country and let’s go win this thing, together.
See you Monday! - Simon
You told Biden and all of us to start mocking Donald Trump. Yesterday Biden did that in spades. thank you, Simon.
I was tremendously energized watching President Biden in Michigan last night. He went on pitch-perfect offense against the 34-time convicted felon and traitor (he even cited the judge who called him a rapist), and made a wholly persuasive, positive case for what he and a Democratic majority can accomplish in a second term. For those still determined to push him out, please watch the speech and remember that 14 million of us voted this year for the Biden-Harris ticket. Then consider by contrast that 8 million voted for the Obama-Biden ticket in the 2012 presidential primaries. And as Simon highlights, polling is improving for us even with the relentless onslaught of negativity. Yesterday, NPR/Marist had Biden beating Trump 50-48. Imagine how well Biden might do if Democrats could set aside their fears and unite behind him with the same level of fervor as MAGA supports Trump!
As Simon often reminds us, America has consistently rejected MAGA in election after election since 2018. If we stay solidly and hopefully on offense each day, we will collectively reject them again, up and down the ballot in 2024.