To: Interested Parties

From: Anna Galland, Executive Director of MoveOn.org

Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Re: GA-06
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While we will not know the results of todays special election in Georgia until later this evening, based off of what
we have seen already, and the results of last weeks election in Kansas, two things are crystal clear about the
political landscape in America today:

1. Trumpcare is a political disaster for Republicans;

2. The resistance is real, is growing, and is now turning into an electoral force.

Trumpcare is a political disaster for Republicans:

A recent poll of GA-06 commissioned by MoveOn found that healthcare is the top priority for voters today. The
poll showed strongly negative views toward Trumpcare. While the district is Republican-leaning, 59% of
respondents had an unfavorable view of the GOP health care plan.

National polling has been even worse for Trumpcare. A recent Quinnipiac poll showed only 17% of voters
nationwide support the Republican plan.

We strongly believe the surprisingly close results in Kansas last week and the fact that a Democrat is likely to
have a strong performance tonight in deep red Georgia prove that Republicans efforts to gut the Affordable Care
Act is creating significant political blowback for them.

Trumpcare and Trumps other policies and actions have energized the progressive grassroots, while the
Republican failure to pass the almost universally unpopular Trumpcareand inability to follow through on six
years worth of promises to repeal the ACAhas de-energized their base.

In short, a fired-up resistance movement, with some help from feckless Republicans, has in six weeks made the
Affordable Care Act into an electoral advantage for progressive Democrats like Jon Ossoff.

The resistance is real, is growing, and is now turning into an electoral force:

Since Inauguration Day, we have seen an unprecedented level of energy in opposition to Trump. To name just a
few examples:

Millions, including many who had never protested before, took to the streets for the Womens March;
Spontaneous protests popped up, with virtually no organizing, at airports from coast-to-coast the night
Trump signed the initial Muslim Ban;
Town Halls across the country have been packed with constituents demanding answers from their
representatives during two Resistance recesses;
Congressional phone lines have been jammedMoveOn members alone made more than 40,000 phone
calls to Congress the day Trumpcare was pulled from the House of Representatives;
 Tens of thousands of activists have joined near-weekly Sunday night Ready to Resist strategy calls to plan
future mobilizations;
Dozens of new organizations have been spurred.

Until last week there was an open question about whether this historic energy would translate to the ballot box.
But last week, in one of the reddest states in the country those questions were answered when Democrats erased a
20-plus point deficit to almost win a seat that the party has not held in a generation. This followed a special
election in California where the Democrat did 19 points better than last November.

And today, a progressive Democrat is expected to get significantly more votes than his opponents in a
Congressional seat that was once held by Newt Gingrich. That sentence would have been unthinkable to most
pundits just a few months ago.

The reason is clear: The resistance is real. The resistance is energized. The resistance is growing. And yes, the
resistance will volunteer and vote.

MoveOns involvement in GA-06:

On March 6, MoveOn members in GA-06 voted overwhelmingly to endorse Jon Ossoff. Since then, MoveOn has
engaged in a big way to inject the health care debate into this race, mobilizing grassroots volunteers, and more
than half a million dollars for Ossoff. Our campaign has included:

A $250,000 TV and digital ad buy focused on Trumpcare;

Bundling $314,000 in contributions directly for the Ossoff campaign;
Launching a text message peer-to-peer voter turnout program;
Mobilizing MoveOn members to volunteer for Ossoff;
Contacting 16,000 MoveOn members in the district for GOTV.

And its not just MoveOn. Progressive organizations both old and new, fueled by the unprecedented level of
energy from their members, are focusing on more races earlier than ever. Daily Kos, Indivisible, the Progressive
Change Campaign Committee, Democracy for America, Our Revolution, and many other progressive
organizations have done work in both GA-06 and KS-04. It is a level of energy and focus on races this early in a
cycle that we have not seen in some time.

Conclusion:

It is too early to say if these races are the start of a wave that will lead to Democrats taking back the House in
2018, but we believe these races do conclusively prove that:

The resistance is real and is not going anywhere;

Democratic opposition to Trump in Congress is working to fire up the base;
Democrats should contest every seat. If races in KS-04 and GA-06 are competitive, then many other, once
unthinkable, seats are now competitive, including the open seat in Montana, which Republicans are spending
millions to save from a strong campaign by Democrat Rob Quist;
Trump and his policies, particularly Trumpcare, are an electoral disaster for Republicans;
Progressives are uniting like never before to combat the threat Trump poses to our communities, our values,
and our democracy.