A lot of you are worried about the election next Tuesday. Some of you have even said you’re scared to death. I get it.
You’re afraid the nation we all grew up in will be changed forever because the worst person ever to be president in our country’s history might be elected again.
You’re afraid that too many Americans are going to ignore Lincoln’s warning when he said: “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
You’re anxious because you fear Trump’s election would kill the dream generations of Americans have dreamed since 1776, the dream Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed for our nation, the dream that America is the land of opportunity, the dream you want to pass on to your children and grandchildren.
You’re frightened that it will all be gone after next week. I get it.
Decent people can’t help but worry when everything they believe and believe in is under threat, but what I want to say to you is that this moment is also an exciting time, a once in a life-time chance for us – you and me and millions like us – to determine the future of a nation.
What a unique and historic opportunity that is.
In one week we get to tell the world we are still the America we’ve always been, not perfect by any means, but a nation that wants everyone here and around the world to have a chance to make the most of their lives, that we are still the America that values its friends and will stand by them no matter what.
We get to say with our votes that we still remember where we came from and will continue to “welcome the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
In a week we are going to win back the rights of women to be treated with respect, to be trusted to make decisions about their own healthcare politicians should never make, including whether or not to have an abortion.
Yes, we’re going to win the election you’re worried about. And let me be clear. What I am saying is not wishful thinking. The circumstances are on our side.
For one thing, this election is not close. The media wants you to believe it is. They’re wrong. What pollsters don’t tell you is that they give points to Trump and subtract them from Harris based on their subjective metrics they think levels the playing field (they don’t).
More important is that polls cannot measure enthusiasm, cannot measure the level of disgust people have for Trump, and both make people determined to vote.
Nor can polls measure the votes Kamala will get from Republicans. Liz Cheney recently said there are many more than people realize because they will never say so publicly. But they are telling her in private because they trust her more than they ever trusted Trump. I heard another former Trump staff member say the same thing.
If Trump loses 5 to 10 percent of Republicans, and that is very possible, he has no chance of winning, period.
On top of that, Democrats, especially women and younger voters, are going to vote in record numbers as they are already doing in early voting.
And then there is Trump himself. He maxed out his support a long time ago. And after the bizarre unhinged-ness that went on at the Madison Square Garden rally last Sunday, including all the meaningless rambling Trump did, he has no chance of picking up undecided voters this week.
It all adds up to a decisive victory for Kamala and Tim and, most of all, American democracy.
The icing on that victory cake will be the message we will send to Donald Trump that he’s fired for good and that America never wants to hear from him again.
And at the same time, we get to fire MAGA Republicans in Congress whose only goal is to keep our government from working.
In a week we will have the collective joy of having preserved, protected, and defended the Constitution of the United States of America.
There is no greater privilege for a citizen than that.
Together we will prove to ourselves and everyone watching that no one needs to try to make America great again because it is already great enough to send Donald Trump to the dung heap of history.
So relax, calm down, vote, if you haven’t already, and get ready for the best day November 5 could possibly be.
We’ve got this.
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