You know that Bernie believes in these issues to his core. There's no question. He's going to stick to what he believes.
We are going to make sure that every voter knows this too, because we think the way to win is with a candidate who can be trusted to fight for the right thing.
Deep Investment in Organizing
Having slick television ads alone is not going to win this election, and it's certainly not going to help pass Medicare for All. The way to truly transform our country is by organizing our communities from bottom to top.
We need to be out on the doors and on the phones, speaking with our friends and neighbors and classmates and coworkers. We need to build a movement of people who are deeply invested in this work, and our campaign needs to invest in that movement.
If we want to win, it will require all of us together. And we think that together, our campaign is the best situated to organize the kind of movement that has never been seen before.
Empowering Our Supporters (You!)
This is your campaign, working in your communities, speaking with people you know. You are eager to get to work, and you know how we can win. Already, our organizing kickoff brought together 60,000 people at 4,700 events who immediately got to work contacting voters. We unveiled our voter contact app, called BERN, that lets anyone start organizing their communities. No other campaign comes close to doing that ... yet.
The work to win the election and to transform our country needs to be organized by people who want to make it happen. That's you, and so we're putting our trust in you to make this organizing work in your community, and we're committed to giving the resources needed to make that a reality.
Unequivocal Rejection of Big Money
You can't change a corrupt system by taking its money, and you can't win an election against Donald Trump by relying on the billionaire class to fund your campaign and super PACs.
If we are going to win this election, it needs to be with a movement funded by people donating what they can afford people making investments in Bernie 2020 as a way of saying they've had enough of the billionaire class buying our elections.
We're proud to be the campaign that is most reliant on money from small contributions, but that also means that there is no super PAC or wealthy benefactor waiting in the wings like some other candidates have so it's on all of us to help fund this campaign.
Challenging the Status Quo
We're not going to be afraid to call out parts of the establishment that think what we're doing is too radical. We know that Donald Trump is not just an aberration he is a logical conclusion of a corrupt political system that has left so many people so far behind.
If all we do in this moment is try to turn back the clock to a pre-Donald Trump time in Washington, DC, we will have failed. That is simply not good enough, and we will make clear both during this campaign, and after we win during the fight to implement our agenda, that it is time for a new way of thinking.
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