The major driver of our driver is our president who i have the job of introducing today. She spent most of her professional career. To quote a piece, they wrote, steering democratic strategy, jessica, an operative who is little known outside of campaign circles and turning the once sleepy dlcc into a juggernaut. I turn it over to jessica how we urned it over to a juggernaut. Thanks so much. Ok, great. The line is open. The juggernaut is powered by a lot of coffee and a lot of hard work. I appreciate everyone coming here today. Im the president of the dlcc d announcing our flip 2020 campaign. And we flipped 10 chambers from red to blue and did that since Donald Trumps election and flip red to blew and why state legislatures matter. So we will talk about the dlcc. We are charged with winning americas state legislatures. For me, this is personal. In the 2010 election cycle i was the National Field director and junior staffer and i saw what happened in 2010. In the last 28 days, i was sent to harrisburg, pennsylvania to preserve the majority in the Pennsylvania State house which was a critical state for redistricting and tough road. We saw late spending in states we thought we couldnt lose and it was hard. I was on the ground in Election Night in harrisburg and the news that we lost so many elections across the country and the republicans were prepared. They spent 30 million to our 10 million that cycle. The worst news is when we lost pennsylvania. I got a call from one of our colleagues back in headquarters and said we lost 21 other legislative chambers. Outside of the smokey bar in harrisburg, in 2010, you could. I walked out of a smokey bar up ed in smoke and curled and i cried a few tears but i picked myself back up and i made a promise as i walked into the bar while karl rove was opening a bolt of champagne, if i had anything to do with that, i would fight back to take back state legislatures. We are better prepared than ever going into 2020 and ready to take this fight and even more chambers going into the next election cycle. I recognize our chairwoman. This is one of the chambers we switched red to blue. And she shares my vision at the dlcc for flipping red to blue. She would be here with us today. But one of the benefits, you can pass great policy and passing Voter Registration in new york. So we are excited to see that progress. Voting rights get when democratic governors sign those bills for us. New york is president alone. Since president trumps we flipped 10 chambers and here are the 10. We have flipped 436 seats, including victories in 425 districts that trump won. Across the board we made gains 4550 states. The 2018 election was a sea change that we continue into 2019. Heres what it looks like. 42 where democrats control the state legislature. In addition to that state democrats govern 15 of the nations total g. D. P. Nd there are 24 fortune 500 companies where democrats control the legislature. It is a significant footprint on the american economy. With the addition of virginia and the wins that were had, we now have 15 democratic. E combined population, a democratcontrolled legislature is 140 million, almost half of the u. S. Population. Lets talk about our try effecta, virginia. In virginia, this november, we showed no signs of slowing down. We flipped six seats in the house and two seats in the state senate. This is the first democraticically controlled and first since 1993 and we are seeing incredible progress since yesterday and steve brought me to tears when i was driving home, i listened to the story where i heard someone who we worked so closely to flip the state legislature counting the votes. Something in my mothers generation and passed the Virginia State legislature. And now they did it. We are excited and will see further progress in virginia and there are bills moving gun safety legislation, lgbt legislation. This is a see where we will see dramatic changes. The numbers are impressive. And these are the members serving before 2017 and lets show you the members in the exact same district that are serving after 2019. This is a remarkable change. Lets see that one more time. Before 2017 and now after 2019. This is a sea change in terms of Representative Democracy in virginia. And this is the most diverse in virginia history. Nationally, we are leading across the country in diversity and no comparison. 3,262 to , we elected state legislatures and 1,300 are women, roughly 40 of women that were recently elected. More than 1,000 people of color nd more than 100 of openly lgbt. We made significant changes. This is such an important pipeline as we develop folks to run upticket. The republicans know we are on the offense. In a memo they sent to lobbyists and say this is what they are up against. They were struck by the spending. They havent changed their candidates. Those are major problems for them in virginia, but they know significant spending is coming their way and doing everything they can to warn their donors and corporate allies. While these results have been amazing, the work hasnt been easy and has been on this journey, its been tough, right . Heres some of the things that we have done that have taken the level of focus. And building out robust analytics and increased our political staff and built up communications and finance and did a lot of work strengthening our Partnership Working with others to make sure our priorities are aligned. Lets talk about candidates and instate partners. One thing i knew we had to do was making sure there were strong campaigns being run in states across the country that be in arizona, texas or pennsylvania were staffed with high quality talent and had the quality. Some of that capacity as democrats had fallen in the minority. We are doing a lot of that and making early investments in states allows a strong team in the states to partner with us to recruit candidates that are diverse and reflective of their communities. Lets talk about what the changes we made in data. When i returned in 2010 it was like comparing apples to oranges and polling at the state legislative levels is difficult. We waited for bias and where to make investments. That was the wrong way. As a result, when i came back, i said we need to standardized and put them in one platform to figure out what is the best chamber opportunity to flip and what are the best races and what are races we may be missing out on. We partnered to build out a platform. We juice online panel data and past Election Results at all levels of the ballot. Our Analytics Platform has been more predicttive than polling. Or past legislative results on their own. This is the most predicttive tools and part of our competitive advantage. And voter turnout and support and we apply to the voter files in states and allows us to target mail, digital and others in states. And determines which states to target. In example is ross tyler out virginia. Well expected that seat to be initially safe and werent polling it. As we looked at our platform we did polling and we narrowly targeted it and we won 5149. This is the way we select our investments and identify opportunities and challenges across the state. Earlier i mentioned our five regionsal political directors. In virginia for the first time, we had a staffer dedicated to the common elt wealth. She was working in richmond and political campaigns and absolutely integrated into the Decision Making processes. We will embed a staffer down in texas where we can win ar special election. Beto orourke has been involved. And great to hear from him and his efforts and secretary castro will be down motivating folks to come out for that race and mayor bloomberg has been knocking. That indicates the importance of state legislative races and we have engaged high profile allies that have their own following to highlight the opportunities in special elections. We have unified special communication and messaging plans for states on tv, mail, digital. We have made a lot of early investments in field and we are spending closely with the Virginia HouseDemocratic Caucus. Every time we spend in a state, we want to see what is the existing plan to spend money to win elections and how can we be supplemental and complementary . E share the best messaging but we have encouraged candidates to focus on Kitchen Table issues, what are the things that folks say to you. What are those issues. Those are the issues you should be reflecting about. You know that education may be challenging in your district or people are searching for jobs. We dont set down national messaging eedicts but folks focus on local messaging and that is in the texas 28 special. One candidate in virginia, the first thing shell talk to you about is relieving the traffic on route 28. Mi was broader brought and entertainment reporter said, what are you most focused on and she said route 28 and the reporter had no idea but how laser focused she has been. Anica is focused on the issues that are core to her constituents and that has been important and used her national profile. In addition to that, record amounts of Financial Investments in states. We announced in virginia of Million Dollars of december of 2018. In addition we spent 2 million in virginia between in kind and companion services. Virginia has Unlimited Campaign contributions and we coordinate the closely with the campaign. We run 50 states finance laws. So often we have to examine the laws to make sure we are in compliance but make sure that our strategy follows the Campaign Finance laws. We have been able to do all of this because of our fundraising. From 2010 when i was on that harrisburg sky walk to 2017, we had a 7 million increase. We have doubled down. From 17 million to 36 million and on track to spend 50 million. This is the largest spending. We have already raised more than 17 million last cycle, 17 million this cycle. That was the last time a president ial campaign was on the ballot. And this july, we outraised in the Republican Leadership committee. And we are on parity with the republicans which is something we couldnt say in the 2010 election cycle. As i mentioned earlier, there has been unprecedented on legislative races from our democratic groups because of our work. Many other organizations are growing their work in the state legislature. And many of these groups have committed to 2020 spending. Many of these groups have not been to the state legislative level before and they are following our lead and they are following our lead. That is an overview of the programs we have developed and share now how we will implement them in 2020. The dlcc is sharing our target. We have never done it before. We never really released the real target list like you might see at some other places and excited to do this right now. Lets talk lets move and talk about the targets. We are working in states to support caucuses and elect more red states. The stripe states are on our expansion list. We are trying to break the supermajority. Kansas, many of you may have heard the shoutout of the governor. Our interest is to break the supermajority in the kansas state house and only need to flip one seat. That would allow the governor to bad more bad bills and veto redistricting maps. He was able to get a person to cross over but she needs stable support and we are interested in providing that. In addition to that, we will be watching to move some of these states like georgia and florida that are competitive states. We want move them on to our top target list. This is 19 chambers across 1 states. As you can see here, we are on complete offense. These are all republican chambers. We feel confident about holding the chambers that democrats won. This election is a once in a generation to flip state legislatures. Every 20 years we have a president ial election on the preredistricting election. So this is significant. There will be record voter turnout this year and this is a 20year opportunity. The next time i will be 60 and will be retired and running a studio. [indiscernible] our focus in life will be different from that 20 years from now. Our targets are in line with the president ial battle grounds. We are building early infrastructure by building up strong legislative campaigns and will benefit the nominee. And this makes sense if you think about the 134 legislative seats in a place like minnesota, folks running smaller campaigns across that state and mobilizing their friends to vote. And in addition to that, we know we have the momentum to surpass our progress in the mid terms. 122 Million People voted in 2018. 156 million are expected to turn out in 2020. Hat is a 28 increase in turnout. We have this generational opportunity to change the composition of state legislatures while building out great infrastructure across the country in order to help the president ial nominee from the bottom up instead of the top down. Now, our targets, these are on our list east to west. First, North Carolina. Democratic governor in North Carolina. In 2018, we broke republican supermajorities in both chambers and that is vital. And we are now competing on a competitive map after redistricting litigation. The governor in North Carolina doesnt have a veto over redistricting it is critical to flip one cham beer from red to blue. Five six seats in the house and six in the senate. The president ial campaign see this as a target. Huge senate races and several congressional pickups on these potential redrawn maps. We have a sense of what has happened and we need early investments. House democrats have filled 117 of the 120 seats on the ballot and 50 seats on the ballot. One of the things we did in virginia we learned after republicans failed in recruitment that we were on a stronger path to switch from red to blue and we knew that. Looking at this map, we know we have strong opportunities as republicans are not challenging as many seats as democrats are. Lets go to our next target. Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, a huge state for redistricting and opportunity to have the next democratic after virginia. The democratic governor tom wolf, we won a special election here in april of 2019. This is a preview of what is to come out of pennsylvania. Flipped anavy veteran district that will trump won by five points. That is significant. That is a significant change and will hold that state senate seat. In redistricting, winning the legislature will have fair maps and democratic Supreme Court. Only nine seats to flip the house. There are nine targets in the house that we can go after and many of the seats, many seats are staggered and we didnt have the opportunity to take them out in 2018. As a result, this will be our first crack at our first seats in pennsylvania since trump was elected. There are special elections coming up. We have a winning record. We have a debate record of winning specials and will have an opportunity this march to flip some of these Pennsylvania State house seats. Pennsylvania is a major president ial battleground. So there is a lot of northwesting in our targets. Lets talk about michigan. In michigan, the democratic governor, an ally as we flip the state house from red to blew. We have the opportunity to flip the Michigan House. We gained five seats in the Michigan House and we only need to flip four seats red to blue in order to flip michigan. We have to win the house to give the governor more power in the state legislature. They are fighting gerry meandering and passed a Redistricting Commission in michigan. But scott walkers organization, National Republican redistricting trust has fought hard and brought a suit in federal court to say that that initiative may not be eligible. Republicans have tried to do everything to take away the funding to build out this commission. So we want to do everything we can flip it from red to blue. Michigan is a huge president ial battleground. Governor gary peters is back up and many gains were made in the last election cycle and we will look at the overlay. There are still seats we can win. So we have a great ability to do this and flip this red to blue. Go to minnesota. This is our next target. Minnesota state senate is our target. We put the minnesota house from red to blue. The speaker is leading it there. I consider an honorary member. The last time i worked i worked for the Minnesota SenateDemocratic Caucus in 2006. This one is close to my heart. The legislature only needs two seats to flip red to blue. The Minnesota State senate was not off the entire chamber and not up in 2018 and gives us a great opportunity. There are a lot of battle grounds that we flip in the minnesota suburbs and if you think what happened in minnesota 2 and minnesota 3. All of those seats flipped from red to blue and they are underneath that opportunity. We have a great we can work easily with the caucus and there are Campaign Contributions to the party and this is a president ial battleground and the prosecute president has spent millions and tina smith is back up and compete in places like minnesota 1. Lets talk about iowa. Another favorite of mine. I worked on gephardt for president in 2004. And i have been thinking about that. And i did rag bry. So it was in iowa. This is the first one on our list. Kim reynolds is the republican governor of iowa and competing in the house. This makes it more difficult but i think well make gains. In part because the longest serving republican in the iowa house decided to flip to become a democrat. She was so disgusted with trumism that he decided to change parties. That is encouraging for us. Iowa has a nonpartisan system. As many of you know its a unique system they call it the iowa model. As a result the legislature could vote down these maps. Theyve had sort of an agreement in the government tradition of iowa, democrats controlled the senate, but theres a possibility that the Republican Legisla