To: Ilyse Hogue
From: NARAL Political Team
Re: 2020 Pro-Choice Victory Plan

NARAL’s priorities for 2020 are defeating Donald Trump, flipping the U.S. Senate, defending allies in the U.S. House, and seizing control of key state legislative chambers.

We’re focusing on game-changer states where our efforts can leverage multiple opportunities: winning Electoral College votes, flipping U.S. Senate seats from red to blue, prevailing in must-win House races, and flipping state legislative chambers. The strategy is to identify those states where we can tip the scales and drive turnout up and down the ballot. These include:

• Arizona, where we can defeat anti-choice U.S. Senator Martha McSally, win a key presidential swing state, defend the pro-choice representatives for the 1st and 2nd congressional districts, and flip both the state House and the state Senate.
• Colorado: We need to hold U.S. Senator Cory Gardner accountable for his deeply unpopular vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and win this key presidential battleground state. Gardner has sponsored legislation to make abortion a felony, and he supported a personhood law to outlaw abortion even in cases of rape and incest — in addition to trying to ban common forms of birth control.
• Iowa: U.S. Senator Jodi Ernst — an outspoken opponent of reproductive freedom — needs to go. We must also hold on to the gains we made in the House delegation in 2018, build on the organizing done for the Democratic presidential caucus, and keep that momentum for our candidate in this important presidential battleground state.
• In Maine, we must oust U.S. Senator Susan Collins — who sold herself to voters as “pro-choice” and then provided the final vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh; defend a crucial U.S. House seat; and capture a swing presidential state.
• Michigan: Pro-choice U.S. Senator Gary Peters needs our help in his battle for reelection. The anti-choice state House is ripe for flipping. And Michigan is among the Midwestern states that we can’t lose again to Trump.
• Minnesota is also essential. Reproductive freedom champion U.S. Senator Tina Smith is running for re-election. We can beat Minnesota’s anti-choice U.S. Representative Jim Hagedorn, who was elected in 2018 by less than half a percentage point and is sitting in a precarious electoral position. The anti-choice majority in the Minnesota Senate is fragile too. And Minnesota is a must-win state for the presidential campaign.

The bottom line: We can’t do it alone. We can’t do it without a substantial and, equally important, early infusion of resources. Four more years of Trump would be catastrophic — even worse than the first four have been. The way to beat him and achieve these other goals is for our most dedicated supporters to invest in this plan today.