Dear John,

Since I wrote to you Friday, we've had some interesting developments in the campaign I wanted to share with you:

1) We're now 4 weeks and 6 days away from Election Day, early voting is well underway and I'm excited to report to you that based on our data and modeling, we believe more of our voters have already cast ballots than their voters. We expect mail-in ballots to sharply break for us, as they did in 2021, and only a fraction of outstanding mail-in ballots have been returned so far, so the more those ballots arrive, the more we expect to see our lead grow while we also work to win early in-person voting, which the other side is actually prioritizing this year. If you want to help us turn out our voters, please reply to this email and I'll put you in touch with my field team!

2) Saturday night was a huge hit, with a packed house for our last Manassas fundraiser of the campaign! Thank you so much to everyone who attended, including my Democratic General Assembly colleagues Del. Eileen Filler-Corn and Sens. Jeremy McPike and Ghazala Hashmi. We crushed our fundraising goal -- well into the five digits -- which is helping us keep our new TV ad up. However...

3) The Governor recently received $4 million in donations from out-of-state Republican billionaires, all while their side complains about our campaign's nationwide people power, despite my in-district donors exceeding the Republican nominee's total donors from all of his sources combined this entire campaign. (One Republican called me "arrogant" for asserting that fact at our debate Thursday. The party of Donald J. "Indictment" Trump accusing anyone of arrogance is truly, in a word, rich.) Likewise, the Governor is dumping that money into seven state Senate races, including this one, so we've put together some counter-programming:

4) We're now hosting one last Prince William County fundraiser October 19 from 6-8 p.m. at Water's End Brewery in Lake Ridge -- the (second) site where I declared victory on November 7, 2017, footage from which ended up in news coverage around the world. We need to pack the house and raise a ton of money to keep up with the Governor, so please donate -- whether or not you can make it.

5) Last Thursday, The Washington Post reported my challenger "had repeatedly lied and disobeyed orders, and received police pay at least twice while moonlighting out of state." So -- in contraction of actually good advice from his own team -- he put out not one but two statements the next day, in which he more or less cited the Chewbecca defense ("Siri, what is the Chewbecca defense?") without refuting the basic premise of the story. 

So then yesterday, he tried to reset the narrative of the race by launching a transphobic attack ad against me on cable TV... which the cable system subsequently pulled down after determining he violated Virginia's "Stand by Your Ad" law.  

6) Meanwhile, my TV ad that is very much still running right now unaltered from when we went up is about my work to expand free breakfast, lunch and after-school meals to tens of thousands of students in greater Prince William. I like that contrast a lot: our message of feeding hungry kids against his message of singling out and stigmatizing trans kids while attacking me -- the first out-and-seated transgender state legislator in American history -- for supporting those kids in an ad that violated the law. 

Like I said in my last email to you after a transphobic heckler hurled f-bombs at me during our debate Thursday, when they go low, we raise money. So please pitch in to our October 19 fundraiser whether you can or can't make it to help us win big this November 7. 

With less than five weeks to go until Election Day, my team needs me on doors more and more each day. Your donations help keep me off the phone so I'm out in the field, so please keep 'em coming and thank you so much for all of your support! 

Warmly, 

Danica  

(P.S. Here's the Prince William Times and Washington Blade coverage of the debate. You can also watch the full debate.)

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Manassas, VA 20113
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