Presidential Race
This is a Blue state, firmly Democratic. Hillary Clinton won this state in 2016 with 15.5% more votes than Donald Trump. It is a fairly safe bet that Joe Biden will win this state in 2020.
[table id=4 filter=”rhode&&island” /]This means, because of the electoral system that we have, that your vote, if you live in Rhode Island, is not as crucial to the final outcome as it would be if you lived in a “battleground” state like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa or Florida.
HOWEVER, President Trump has refused to say that he will honor the results of this election, has claimed there will be widespread fraud and cheating, and has threatened to challenge the results in court. THEREFORE, every vote really does matter, even in Rhode Island, to ensure that Trump loses by a clear enough margin across the whole country and cannot therefore reject the results.
Please consider this when deciding whether to vote in this election against Trump (by voting for Biden) or not (by voting third party or not at all). Your vote really does count in this, of all elections, even if you don’t live in a “battleground” state.
Register to Vote:
[table id=2 filter=”rhode&&island” /]Vote by mail:
[table id=6 filter=”rhode&&island” /]Vote in person:
[table id=7 filter=”rhode&&island” /]AND, your most powerful contribution to this election may not be your own vote, but the vote of a friend, relative, colleague, former neighbor, or somebody else you know who does live in a “battleground” state. You may be the one person who can convince that person to vote, and to vote for our survival, at this election.
Click here for more ideas and help in convincing a friend or relative to vote.
Senate Race
This is Democrat-held Senate seat and the Republicans are unlikely to take it. Nevertheless, this election is not just about Donald Trump. So long as Mitch McConnell retains control of the Senate, a President Biden will be able to achieve very little in office. We need to end McConnell’s tyranny of the Senate on November 3rd. So please use your vote to keep this seat blue.
A vote for Jack Reed is a vote for survival!
House Race
The best we can hope for in 2020 at the Presidential and Senate levels is to get rid of Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell so that we will at least survive the next four years. But in the medium term, we need to elect politicians who support the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, the Nuclear Ban Treaty and other real, sustainable solutions to the global threats facing us all.
Luckily, we already have over 100 such politicians in the House of Representatives. We need to make sure they get re-elected, and we need to elect more of them!
If you live in one of these US Congressional Districts, you have a progressive member of Congress to support!
District 1 – Cicilline