Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) in support of former Governor Ted Strickland’s (D. OH) U.S. Senate campaign:
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell isn't the only Republican suggesting that the Senate should spend the next year blocking President Obama's Supreme Court nominee -- regardless of who that nominee is or what the nominee's qualifications are.
Senator Rob Portman of Ohio is singing off the Republican song sheet -- declaring that the Senate should wait until 2017 to fill the Supreme Court vacancy.
If the Senate Republicans won't do their jobs, it's time to replace them with Democrats who will. That's why I'm doubling down on my commitment to take back the Senate in 2016, and I hope you will, too.
Ted Strickland is fighting for working families and is leading the movement to take back Ohio from Republican control. And now, his campaign faces a major milestone: their end-of-month fundraising deadline.
Can you help us raise 30,000 donations for Democrat Ted Strickland before the end of February?
Let's show Mitch McConnell: if the Republican majority in the Senate won't give President Obama's Supreme Court nominee an up-or-down vote, we'll be changing the majority this November. That starts with electing Ted Strickland.
Mitch McConnell and his party are calculating that if a Republican wins the White House and they keep the Republican majority in the Senate, they can fill the vacant seat with another ultra-conservative judge in 2017 and keep the balance of the Court tipped in their favor.
We will fight back and do everything we can to put pressure on the Republicans to reconsider their position. But we also need to do everything we can to take back the Senate -- because the stakes are sky-high.
Luckily we have a tough experienced candidate running for the Senate here in Ohio. Former Governor Ted Strickland. He has a strong record of fighting for working families. He's leading his Republican opponent in the polls.
And Ted can win in November -- as long as he has the money to keep building his grassroots campaign and fight back against Karl Rove and the Koch brothers on the airwaves.
I'm doing everything I can to help take back the Democratic majority in the Senate -- but we need you, too. If you can, please help us raise 30,000 donations for Ted Strickland before the end of February.
Thank you for being a part of this,
Elizabeth
Click here to donate to Strickland’s campaign.