The four horsemen of the 2024 Senate majority
I’ve promised you all along that if the Senate races in Florida or Texas ever came into play, Palmer Report would lead the charge in trying to win them. Earlier this month Brian Schatz, the politically savvy Senator from Hawaii, stated his view that the Senate seat in Florida was indeed winnable. Accordingly, we began fundraising for the Florida seat, alongside our existing fundraising for the Ohio and Montana seats.
Now the DSCC itself has announced massive ad buys aimed at the Senate races in Florida and Texas. That’s enough for me, so now we’re adding the Senate seat in Texas to our fundraising efforts. This gives us four targeted Senate races. If we win any two of these four Senate races (along with all the “Lean Democrat” and “Likely Democrat” races that we’re favored in), it’ll give President Kamala Harris a fifty seat de facto Senate majority. If we win any three of these four races, it’ll give President Harris a true 51 seat Senate majority.
We’re making this easy for you. We now have an ActBlue page where you can make one donation and it’ll be split evenly among the four Senate races in Florida, Texas, Montana, and Ohio. 100% of your donation (minus any credit card processing fees) goes directly to the four Democratic candidates. If you donate now, the candidates will have the money within a few days, and they can immediately do whatever they need to do with it.
Not all of you are in a position to donate, but there are other important ways you can help with these Senate races. You can call your friends and relatives in Florida, Texas, Montana, and Ohio and remind them to register right now, and then remind them again later to vote. You can send postcards to voters. If you’re in or near any of these four states, you can go knock on doors with the campaign. If you’re not in any of these states, you can sign up to phone bank from your living room. The campaigns will give you a list of Democratic-leaning voters to call, and even give you the script.
So let’s each figure out what our role is going to be in helping to win the 2024 Senate majority. I would start by signing up on the volunteer pages for all four Democratic Senate candidates, so they can help you figure out what opportunities are the right fit for you:
Florida Senate candidate Debbie Muscarel-Powell
Texas Senate candidate Colin Allred
Montana Senate candidate Jon Tester
Ohio Senate candidate Sherrod Brown
If you’re on Twitter, you should follow all four candidates, turn on alerts, and retweet them each time they post anything about their campaigns:
Debbie Muscarel-Powell on Twitter
And if you are looking for a solid place to invest your donation money, make a single ActBlue donation that’ll be split among the four Senate candidates. Let’s go win the Senate!
Bill Palmer is the publisher of the political news outlet Palmer Report