In a fundraising email Wednesday, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook said running against Donald Trump has kept him up at night, stressed.
“The truth is, as of today, we’re 130,000 donations short of our goal,” Mook wrote in the plea for cash. “If we don’t raise what we thought we would for June before tomorrow at midnight, we’re going to have to make some difficult calls about where our funding goes in key battleground states, whether to hire more organizers or cut back, or whether to set up that next field office.”
Donald Trump’s campaign has started to up churn its fundraising gears but as of last the fundraising filing is behind Clinton by tens of millions of dollars. Mook, though, said he is still shaken up.
“The reason I feel so much urgency about this is because of the nature of the challenge we’re up against. I’ve lost elections before. I know how bad that feels. But I’ve never worked a race where I’ve spent more nights sitting awake, stressed about the implications of what losing might means. Donald Trump isn’t a normal candidate, and if he beats us, it will be more than a defeat at the ballot box — it will be a once-in-a-generation setback for our values and our shared idea of what America means.”
The email, which had the subject line “setback,” asked for one dollar.