Kamala just chose her running mate. Let’s welcome Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to the race 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Assuming Democrats win the presidency in November, Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan will ascend to replace Walz, becoming the first Native American woman governor in the US. It was widely anticipated that Peggy would run in 2026, so we’re excited she will occupy the governor’s mansion even sooner.
And Tim won’t just be the vice president. He’ll also be the president of the US Senate—casting the tie-breaking vote in the event of a 50-50 split, as Kamala herself has done 33 times during her tenure, the most of any vice president.
With a Democratic victory at the top of the ticket, in all three toss-up Senate seats, and in every Democratic-leaning competitive Senate seat, a 50-50 split is exactly what we’ll have at the beginning of next year.
We’ve seen life-changing presidential priorities doomed by Senate opposition: immigration reform in 2007, a public option in 2009, an assault weapons ban in 2013, immigration reform again in 2014 … the list goes on. Just this week, the Senate voted down an expansion of the child tax credit that the House had already approved.
We’ve also seen the judiciary transformed—and our most fundamental rights stripped away—by the rubber stamp of a Republican-controlled Senate.
So while it’s critical that we elect Kamala president, we also must give her a Democratic Senate to work with. That means women in the closest races must win, but right now, they’re falling behind in fundraising.
In fact in Q2 men, even ones whose races aren’t as competitive, ourtraised every woman in a competitive race:
