DNC Chair Ken Martin Rallies Voters on National Organizing Call for Sherrill

Tonight, DNC Chair Ken Martin hosted a “National Call to Action: Virtual GOTV Kickoff” organizing call with New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill and Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger. Chair Martin, along with more than a dozen federal and statewide elected officials, including Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, New Jersey Senators Andy Kim and Cory Booker, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, Delaware Senator Chris Coons, and New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Luján, among many others, fired up voters in the final days before the 2025 election. The organizing call led directly into a phonebank to persuade New Jersey and Virginia voters to turn out on November 4.

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With so much at stake, the DNC is all hands on deck to ensure Sherrill and Spanberger win on Election Day. Last week, the DNC announced six-figure investments in both New Jersey and Virginia to turbocharge GOTV efforts. In total, the DNC has invested over $3.2 million in New Jersey, the most we’ve ever invested in the state in an off-year election, and $3.2 million in Virginia. In total, the DNC has invested over $7 million into these 2025 elections. DNC Chair Ken Martin will travel to both states in the coming days.

“Organizing is the lifeblood of the Democratic Party, and that’s why I’ve been on the ground all year and have crisscrossed across New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and California in these final days of this 2025 election season. The DNC has shown up everywhere this year,” said DNC Chair Ken Martin.

“What people have been responding to is just the sense that I’m going to have their back, I’m going to fight for them, and that everything Trump and my opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, plan to do is going to raise their costs. They're seeing it everywhere, whether it’s tariffs, the One Big Beautiful Bill. Now everyone’s concerned about the SNAP funding. I was just in a senior center with a lot of Meals on Wheels recipients. So at every turn, we’re seeing huge hits to the economy, from seniors to college kids who are worried about finding jobs. So the message is cutting through on my desire to cut costs, to bring costs down for New Jerseyans, and to fight Trump and the economic harm he's doing, while my opponent has given Trump an ‘A,’” said New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill.

“We have the opportunity to elect a governor and members of the House of Delegates and three statewide offices focused on ensuring that we are expanding and growing Virginia’s economy and creating some steadiness in the face of so much chaos and division coming out of Washington. And it’s a fantastic time here, in part because people know that we get to set an example for the rest of the country. It’s just us and New Jersey, and we get to set an example, not just in winning and winning decisively, but in how we proceed in governing come January. My background is one of service,” said Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger.

“These two candidates, I know they're going to do a good job. They're going to show up every single day to represent their people and to move their states, not to the right or the left, but forward for everyone. But for them to win, we need your help. We need you to do everything you can in these last days. That’s signing up to make calls, that’s signing up to knock doors, that’s making the phone calls and giving what you can in these last couple of days,” said Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear.

“This is our chance to show that the MAGA world is not gonna win when it comes to what the people want — when it comes to justice, when it comes to health care access, when it comes to affordability, and when it comes to making our nation work for everyone not just privileged few that they benefited in their Big Beautiful Bill, which gave trillions of dollars in tax cuts to the wealthiest of the wealthy,” said New Jersey Senator Cory Booker.

“We have to send a definitive message to the rest of the country that this country demands a change in direction, that we do not want more of what we’ve seen from Donald Trump, and we’re going to see that in New Jersey, we’re going to see that across all 50 states,” said New Jersey Senator Andy Kim.

“Democrats, the facts have overperformed in 46 of 47 key elections this year, and I'm talking about things like the Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, the mayor’s race in Omaha, many of these we’ve won, right, legislative races in Iowa, but even in the reddest of red, we are overperforming. We are winning. But our biggest test, everyone, is less than a week away. We need you more than ever to elect Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger in Virginia,” said Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar.

“If we can retain the current map, I'm convinced we can win three House seats, flip them from Republican to Democrat, just like Abigail Spanberger flipped a long-held Republican seat to Democrat in 2018. I think we can bring that change to Pennsylvania in 2026, but first we have to hold those key Supreme Court seats,” said Delaware Senator Chris Coons.

“So remember this, every election matters, and the one next week is the first big opportunity to send Donald Trump and congressional Republicans a clear message: The American people reject their agenda of giving tax giveaways to billionaires, while ripping health care and food assistance, away from millions of our brothers and sisters across America,” said New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Luján.

“This is the first opportunity since that election to do something, and doing something looks like making that phone call, knocking on that door, making that small contribution, doing everything we can to get these key races across the finish line. We do this because when we win, we can govern, and when we govern, we can change,” said California U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell.

“I am great, great friends, dear, dear friends with Abigail and with Mikie. We came in together as a class. We were part of a group that you may remember called the ‘badasses.’ The badasses are still alive and well. Abigail and Mikie are fighting for New Jersey and for Virginia. Elissa is fighting for Michigan. I'm still here, fighting for Pennsylvania, but we need your help now. We need to make sure that we bring this thing home,” said Pennsylvania U.S. Representative Chrissy Houlahan.

“Next week, we have the opportunity to either elect a cheerleader for Donald Trump or someone who is going to fight for Virginians, who is going to fight for our federal workers, who is going to fight to lower costs. We’re going to fight for our education system, and I’ve got two kids, and there is only one person that I trust to build a future for them and the Commonwealth of Virginia, and that is Abigail Spanberger,” said Virginia U.S. Representative Jennifer McClellan.

“Trump's policies have hurt Virginia's economy. 32,000 jobs are expected to be lost this year because of the DOGE cuts. Unemployment has risen for seven straight months, the longest stretch since the 2008 recession. Trump’s tariffs and federal layoffs have slowed job growth and are hurting families and farmers in Virginia. This is why we need Abigail Spanberger in the governor’s mansion to fight for hard working Virginia families, but we also need to expand the Democratic majority in the House of Delegates, because that's how we how we will pass legislation that lowers costs for families, strengthens our public schools and workforce programs, protects reproductive rights and our fundamental freedoms,” said Virginia Delegate Elizabeth Guzman.

 

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