Campaigns

With record numbers joining our party, voting and volunteering across the state, we are well positioned to turn that energy into a united victory up and down the ballot in November.

At every level, we spent the last several months talking to voters about the issues facing our state and our nation. The rising cost of food and gas, the out of control costs of health care, and out of reach college education. But we didn’t only talk about the challenges – we offered solutions. Solutions that will ensure our children have opportunity provided by a quality education, every Oregonian has access to affordable health care, our air is clean and our dependence on foreign oil is lessened, and the assurance that working families will earn living wages.

It is clear from Tuesday night in Oregon, and in elections in 47 other states, that these are the solutions Americans are looking for to return our nation to a time of peace and prosperity. And it’s clear that it is Democratic leadership that can deliver on this promise of hope and opportunity.

This primary has made us stronger, more focused and more determined to grow our majority in the State Legislature, elect Democrats to statewide office, maintain the Congressional District 5 seat, and send Speaker Merkley to Washington, D.C. to join a Democratic Senate and a Democrat in the White House.

We tested ourselves in this primary and we came out stronger, better and more united. Now it is our job to capture this momentum and take it all the way to November. We are Democrats – the party of the people – and we can and will put our country back on the right path.

Ultimately only a coalition for change will bring about the change we seek in Washington D.C. We urge Democrats to pledge to unify around the eventual nominee, and work for a better America."