Cohen’s testimony

Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen is currently testifying under oath about Trump’s criminal conduct, his business interests in Russia, and his direction to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels in 2016 and then lie about it.

This has become the new normal — a member of the president’s inner circle testifying before Congress about crimes committed by his boss before and during his time as the president of the United States. Despite all of the nefariousness circulating the Trump administration and his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump could very well win another four years in the Oval Office.

His re-election campaign has already raised nearly $130 million — and they’re putting that money to work. The Trump campaign and the RNC have spent at least $6.2 million on over 91,000 digital ads, and I can’t even begin to imagine the organizing infrastructure they’re putting into place.

We’re doing everything possible to catch up — making landmark data agreements with state parties to provide real-time data to the entire progressive ecosystem and launching Organizing Corps 2020 so that our Democratic nominee will have the strongest field team possible to take on Donald Trump. But those programs won’t work unless the Democratic Party can financially support them — and, quite frankly, we just aren’t there yet. So I have to ask:

Donald Trump and his allies are going to be hard to beat in 2020, but I know we can do it if we come together now and make early investments in the tech and organizing infrastructure it will take to lift our Democratic nominee to victory.

Thanks for standing with Democrats today and every day.

Tom

Tom Perez
Chair
Democratic National Committee