UNSUSPENDED

"If the mission is right, the odds don't matter"

Yesterday I unsuspended my Presidential campaign.

America’s political dynamics are moving in a disturbing direction, with Donald Trump’s power on the incline and President Biden’s on the decline. More and more people are saying the quiet part out loud: that despite the fact that the President deserves credit for many of his accomplishments, he is in the eyes of millions of Americans a weak candidate to defeat Donald Trump in 2024.

I suspended my campaign because we were losing the horse race. But there is something much bigger than the horse race that’s at stake here. In the words of Mohammed Ali, ‘When the mission is right, the odds don’t matter.”

We cannot sit idly by while the  D.C. political class sleepwalks this country into disaster. Too many have followed the directives of the status quo for too long, but we are awakening now. We are ready to act, to take the wheel of history into our hands and turn it in another direction. A Presidential campaign is an opportunity for voters themselves to decide where they want the country to go.

We need a new beginning in America, and whether I can help create that as President or in some other way, unsuspending the campaign is a necessary next step.

The issues we bring to the fore in this campaign remain in the national conversation as long as we are in the race. Martin Luther King Jr. said “Our lives begin to end on the day we stop talking about things that matter.” I have seen up close how our political system is averse to conversations that matter most; with this campaign we are having the conversations anyway. We the People want, and need, to have them. From #MedicareForAll to #CeasefireNow in exchange for the hostages, from tuition free college and tech school to a guaranteed living wage, from waging peace to repudiating America’s forever war machine, from subsidized child care to ending America’s War on Drugs, our platform restores America’s middle class and helps create a new chapter in American history.

We can respond to the cult-like personality of Donald Trump with a light-filled vision of hope and possibility. We can become once again a “government of the people, by the people, and for the people” at a time when corporate interests have taken Washington hostage.

I hope you are as moved by this vision as I am.  Many of you have supported the campaign before, and I hope you feel moved to support it again.

So much is riding on what we do now. Even if the most I can do is influence the President, that in itself is a goal worth striving for.  For those of us who are deeply committed to Trump not returning to the White House, it’s imperative that we do everything possible to help mount a winning campaign in 2024.

I hope you will help me do this. There is no time to waste. Please give generously so we can restart the engines and race to the top.