IN HOPES OF A FUTURE HARVEST

Planting seeds wherever we go...

I, like many others, am deeply concerned about the prospect of Donald Trump becoming President again and I do believe he poses an existential threat to our democracy. I have said throughout my Presidential campaign that I would never do anything that I feel would help Donald Trump regain the White House.

A stand against fascism is now our most urgent concern.

But I agree with Franklin Roosevelt when he said we would not have to worry about a fascist takeover in this country as long as democracy delivered on its promises. And our democracy does not now deliver on its promises to the majority of Americans. I have been traveling the country for the past year, and I have a very strong sense there is an energy that’s about to blow. People are desperate, and they are not feeling that Washington hears their cries for help. If the President does not offer a more inspiring agenda to the electorate than he is currently offering, then I fear defeat in November.

For that reason, I do not intend to be quiet now. Half the states have not yet weighed in with their primary votes, and for those where we are on the ballot I plan to travel and speak my truth. 

The truth is, the Democratic Party is losing voters at a time when we most need them. Black voters, Asian voters, Muslim voters, and young voters are among those headed to the door in way too many cases. I continue to feel that my agenda is the one that would inspire them. I have said repeatedly that I do not believe the greatest electoral risk to the Democrats in 2024 is people voting for Trump, but rather people staying home and not voting, or voting for a third party or independent candidate.

What I will be doing over the next few weeks is what I think of as a kind of shadow campaign, continuing to share with voters the analysis and policies that I believe would make the difference between winning and losing in 2024. My hope is that we'll influence the President to adopt them, in order to avoid a catastrophic loss to Donald Trump at a time when such a loss could spell the end to our democracy as we know it.

Over these next two and a half months, I want to share the word that I still believe will seed a new beginning in America. We have been right all along, and the message is too important not to use every possibility available to take it as far as we possibly can.

Please follow my schedule, and if I’m in your town please come by! Chicago on Thursday and Friday, then Arizona for a couple of day, then in New Orleans a few days after that. We are planting seeds wherever we go…