I’ve said it before and I’ll say again. If we want to restore democracy and build hope for our future in the United States, the US Senate elections are as important and maybe even more important than the Presidential Election. Please join me in an all-out campaign to guarantee that the the US Senate will be under the control of Democrats and progressive independents.
This year there are 35 Senate seats up for election this year and 23 of them are currently held by Republicans. That means there are 23 opportunities to flip a seat to the Democrats and create a strong majority in the Senate. Below I’ve listed the names of Democrats running for the Senate with links to their campaign website. Your mission is to:
- Vote for the candidates running in your state
- Adopt one or more candidates running in another state, especially if there’s no Senatorial election in your state
- Donate and/or volunteer for the campaigns of as many Senate candidates as you can
- Help people register to vote and advocate for your state to support things like automatic registration or same-day registration
- Make sure that everyone is able to vote and have their vote counted by advocating for vote by mail, early voting, and sufficient polling locations
- Volunteer on election day to help at polling locations and/or observe potential irregularities
If you are short on money or time, please target the 15 senate elections marked with in asterisk where there is a very good chance of Democratic victory and/or removing a particularly odious Republican from the Senate.
2020 DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANDIDATES FOR US SENATE
* Alabama: Doug Jones
* Alaska: Al Gross
* Arizona: Mark Kelly
Arkansas: Dan Whitfield (a progressive independent candidate because the Democrats didn’t run a candidate)
Colorado: John Hickenlooper
Delaware: Chris Coons
* Georgia (regular): Jon Ossoff
Idaho: Paulette Jordan
Illinois: Dick Durbin
* Iowa: Theresa Greenfield
* Kansas: Barbara Bollier
Kentucky: Amy McGrath
* Maine: Sara Gideon
Massachusetts: Ed Markey
Michigan: Gary Peters
Minnesota: Tina Smith
* Mississippi: Mike Espy
* Montana: Steve Bullock
Nebraska: Chris Janicek
New Hampshire: Jeanne Shaheen
New Jersey: Cory Booker
* New Mexico: Ben Ray Luján
* North Carolina: Cal Cunningham
Oklahoma: Abby Broyles
Oregon: Jeff Merkley
Rhode Island: Jack Reed
* South Carolina: Jaime Harrison
South Dakota: Dan Ahlers
Tennessee: Marquita Bradshaw
* Texas: MJ Hegar
Virginia: Mark Warner
* West Virginia: Paula Jean Swearengin
Wyoming: Merav Ben-David
Two states will hold non partisan primary elections held on November 3, 2020.
* Georgia (special)
Special Election: November 3, 2020: Raphael Warnock
Note: All candidates will be on the same ballot regardless of party affiliation. If no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, the top two finishers will advance to a runoff election, to be held on January 5, 2021
Louisiana
Nonpartisan Blanket Primary: November 3, 2020: Antoine Pierce and Adrian Perkins appear to be two of the strongest candidates out of 15 candidates running including 5 Democrats and 7 independents!
Note: All candidates will be on the same ballot regardless of party affiliation. If no one candidate wins a majority of the vote in the primary, there will be a runoff election on December 5, 2020.
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