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Hey Friday night drinking Twitter! It's just TEN DAYS before the election. Tonight I'm packing up to go to Iowa to follow J.D. Scholten's campaign for the grand finale. But before I go, I want to make one last plea for your boozy support where we can use it most! 🍸🌊💸🍾🇺🇸🗳️

All year long we've been fundraising for our Great Slate of rural candidates in competitive Senate states. With ten days left and all the financials in, there are now two races in particular where we need some last-minute money. Raise your glasses first to...

JARED GOLDEN in Maine's 2nd district. This is a district Trump won by 10 points in 2016, where just two years ago it was touch and go whether a Democrat could even be elected. Today, Golden is an incumbent (the first to flip the seat in 106 years!) and in some polls leads 60-33!

The fact that a Democrat who could not attract DCCC support in 2018 now has a safe seat in rural Maine demonstrates that we can win in Trump districts if we stop writing off rural America and run on the issues that make Democrats popular. Having Golden in office helps two ways

First, it helps with the Senate race in Maine, which will be won or lost in the second district. Sara Gideon is a Freeport suburbanite and is reluctant to campaign upstate. Golden can't be reluctant because that's his district. His more effective rural outreach turns out votes

Second, it helps Biden and Harris contest the second district. There's no doubt that they will win in coastal Maine, but the second district casts its own electoral vote, and that is (narrowly) within our reach in part because we have a fantastic incumbent congressman up there

Now please pour out a second drink (or third, or fourth, no one is judging on a Friday) for J.D. SCHOLTEN in Iowa's fourth district, known to many of you as Steve King's district, which voted for Trump by a margin of 61%-34% in 2016.

Scholten closed that gap by 13% in his first run for this seat in 2018, winning 24,000 more votes than there are Democrats in the district. He came within 3 points of beating Steve King, previously considered untouchable, weakening him so badly that King lost his primary in 2020.

Just like in Maine, the extremely competitive Senate race in Iowa is going to be decided in the rural parts of the state. While his opponent, Randy Feenstra, stayed home, Scholten visited all 324 towns in his district this fall in his campaign RV. People know him in the district

Neither of these candidates got the memo that rural voters are unwinnable, or that Trump voters are unpersuadable. Both of them speak to voters on issues of substance to rural America—with my own eyes I watched J.D. shut down a heckler by talking about monopoly pricing of inputs

With early voting underway in both Iowa and Maine, these two need your drunken, angry help tonight, ten days out from the election. We need to lock down every rural vote we can get. So please very carefully type your credit card info, and give tonight! secure.actblue.com/donate/great_s…