Having a room full of reporters is a milestone and quite frankly, it is attention that getting a fewot campaigns ago. Jessica has spent most of her professional career working in the legislatives base and is a manager of resources. To quote a political piece, they wrote steering democratic strategy to win and operative who is little known outside of Democratic Campaign circles and has spent the last five years turning the once sleepy dlcc into a juggernaut. Without taking any more of your time, i will turn it over to jessica. Jessica thank you. I appreciate it. Should i on mute . Unmute . Thank you, everyone. The juggernaut is powered by a lot of hard work so i appreciate everyone coming here today. I am the president of the dlcc. Flipe announcing today our everything 2020 campaign. Redlipped 10 chambers from to blue. We have done that since donald trump selection. We are Donald Trumps election. And by state legislators matter. I will tell you a little more about the dlcc. On a are not just words page from a. It is personal. In the 2010 election cycle, i was the National Field director. A junior staffer. I some what happened in 2010 firsthand. In the last few days of the election, i was sent to harrisburg, pennsylvania where i was sent to help preserve the majority in the state house. We saw lot of late spending in states that we couldnt lose like wisconsin going into the election cycle. And it was really hard. I was there in harrisburg. And the news came out that we lost so many elections across the country. We lost one state to another. The republicans spent 30 million to our only 10 million that cycle. So the worst news of all came when we lost pennsylvania. And i got a call from another colleague that said we lost 21 others. Apparently you can still smoke in some bars in pennsylvania. In 2010, you certainly could. And so i walked out of the smoky bar covered in smoke and curled up on the cold harrisburg side walk. It was a cold, rainey night and i cried a few tears. Er popped up a budweiser while karl rove was presumably popping a bottle of champagne. If i had anything to do with that i would fight like hell to take back state legislatures around the country. I have the opportunity to do that now in the dlcc. Were better prepared and were ready to flip even more chambers going into the next election cycle. I also today want to recognize our chairwoman, new york majority leader Andrea Stewart cousins. This is one of the ones we flipped red to blue. She shares my vision and our vision at the dlrc for flipping state legislative chambers red to blue. She would be here with us today but one of the benefit of inning new majority is you can pass great policy including bail reform. So were excited to see that progress. Voting rights do excited when democrats win majorities and democratic governors sign those bills for us. But new york isnt alone. Since Donald Trumps election we flipped 10 chambers from trode blue. Here are those state legislative chambers. Weve also flipped 436 seats including victories in 425 districts that trump won. Across the board, we made gains in 45 out of 50 u. S. States. The 2018 election was a seat change that we continue into 2019. Heres what this looks like right now. Right now 42 of americans live in a state where democrats control at the very least the state legislature. In addition to that, state democrats govern nearly 50 of the nations total g. D. P. Gross domestic products. And there are 243 for chunal 500 Companies Head quartered in a state where democrats control the legislature. So its a significant footprint on the American Economy where democrats control these states. With the addition of virginia and the wins that were had at the gubernatorial level, we now ave 15 democratic trifectas. The combined democratic controlled legislatures is nearly 140 million, thats almost haffed of the u. S. Population. So this is significant. Lets talk about our favorite new democratic trifecta the one we won in 2019. Virginia. In virginia this november, we showed no signs of slowing down. We flipped two seats in the house and two seats in the state senate. This is the first democratic controlled assembly in 25 years in virginia. And its the first trifecta since 193. And were already seeing incredible progress just yesterday. And this is something that actually brought me to tears to be very honest when i was driving home. I listened to the wmau story where i heard eileens voice swlun who we worked so closely to flip the state luggetchure passing the vote to pass the equal rights amendment. Something that in my mothers generation thought stalled forever and now passed the irginia legislate chure legislature. Were excited. There have been bills filed moving gun safety, lgbtq protection and just a wide array of democratic priorities. This is a state where were going to see dra make it changes. The numbers are impressive. Wed like to show you what this actually likes like. These were the members serving in 2017. And now lets show you the members in the exact same districts that are serving after 2019. This is a remarkable change. Lets see that one more time. Before 2017. And now, after 2019. So this is a seat change in terms of representational democracy in virginia. This is the most diverse General Assembly in virginia history. This isnt just flew virginia. Were leading across the country in diversity. Theres no comparison between democrats and republicans. Since 2017 weve elected 3,262 dems to state legislatures of those more than 1,300 are women. And thats roughly 40 of the folks that were recently elected. More than 100 are openly lgbtq. So this is dramatic. Weve made significant changes in terms of the power in state legislatures. This is such an important pipeline as we develop folks that can run up ticket. The republicans, they know were on the offense. In fact, in an Interested Party memo that they sent to d. C. Lobbyist they said virginia is a harbinger of what they were up against. They were struck by the dramatic spending. Know significant spending is coming their way and theyre doing everything they can to warn their conservative donors and corporate alleys. The work hasnt been easy. And its been and truly ive been on this journey since 2016. Its been tough, right . Here are some of the things that weve done that have taken an unprecedented level of focus. Strengthening our caucuses. Building robust data and analytics. We have increased five Regional Directors and increased their capacity. We have done a lot of work with key allies working with other spend ners the state legislative space to make sure our priorities are aligned. Lets talk about candidates and instate partners. One thing that i knew we needed to do when i came back to the dlcc was improve the instate inl infrastructure making sure there are strong campaigns being run across the country that our dlcc counterparts be it in arizona, texas or pennsylvania were staffed with high Quality Campaign talent. Some of that capacity is atrophied as democrats have fall into the minority. And i knew we had to rebuild it. So were doing a lot of that and making early investments in states also allows a strong team in the state to part tpwher us to recruit great candidates that are diverse and really reflect theyre communities. Lets talk a little bit about what the changes that we made in data analytic. Ill tell you when i was near 2010, it was like comparing apples to oranges. We would look at one poll and compare it to another poll. We would try to personally wait for pollster bias and figure out where to make investments. That was the wrong way to do things. As a result when i came back i said we need to stan darppedize all of our data and analytics. We need to put them in one platform to figure out what is the best chamber, opportunity for us to flip. And what are the best races that are opportunitys . And what are races that we may be missing out on . So we part nes with this analytics. E used online panel Analytic Data and districts across at all evel of the ballots. The performance that secretary clinton received, the votes were past state legislative votes on their own. This tool is the most predictive tool in winning chambers in 2018 and 2019. And its part of our comparative advantage. We apply to that to the state party voter files instate and that allows us to target male, digital and other states in state. One great example is ross tyler seat out in virginia. We expected that seat initially to be safe. And we just werent polling in it. But as we look at our Analytics Platform we looked at the data and so we narrowly targeted in it. And with extra resources we won 5149. This is the way weve been able to select our investments and be strategic, ite fight challenges across the state. Earlier, i mentioned our five regional political director who are in our five targeted states in virginia we had an instate staffer. She was embedded working on richmond on political calls. Absolutely integrated into all of the campaigns decisionmaking processes. We will have a staffer in texas where we have a chance to win january 28. Beto orourke has been heavily involved. Its been great to flare him and his effort. Secretary castro will also be down motivating folks to come out for that race and mayor bloomberg has been down door knocking. That indicates the importance of legislative races that weve elevated across the country and weve engaged high profile allys that have their own followings to come down to highlight the opportunities in special elections. And the other thing weve done is unified commune caste communications. Weve had record spending on state in tv, mail, digital. In this case we were able to spend very closely with the Virginia HouseDemocratic Caucus our allies in the state. Every time we spend in a state, we want to see what is the existing plan to spend money to win elections. Chow we be supplemental and complimentary . We want to make sure we stay in alignment with these states. We have encouraged candidateer candidates to talk about the Kitchen Table top issues. Those are the issues that you should be reflecting an thinking about. You know this. You know that education may be challenging in your district. You know that people may be searching for jobs. So we dont we dont set down national messaging edicts here. We want to make sure that folks focus on local messengering and thats playing in the texas 28 special if you think about one great example of this is delegate danica. The first thing shell talk to you about is leaving the traffic en route 128. I once saw her on the red carpet. Demi lovato has brought her to the grammys. An an entertainment reporter said to danica, what are you most focused on . And she said route 28. The reporter who had never fwon virginia had no idea. But thats how focused she is. First transgender person elected to state legislature. But her focus has been very much on the issues that are core to her constituents. She has use herd National Profile lift that up. In addition to that, weve made record amounts of Financial Investments in states we announced an early investment of 1 million in virginia. That was the earliest investment. We spent nearly 2 million between Campaign Services. Virginia has open finance laws so Unlimited Campaign contribution so that made us to be able to coordinate closely with the campaigns. Were on 50 celts of Campaign Finance laws. So often we have to examine the law to make sure were in complains. And make sure that our strategy follows the Campaign Finance laws and that were engaging in the right way. Weve been able to do all of this because of our unpress denlt fundraising. Since 2010 when i was on that cold harrisburg side walk, we only had a 7 million increase. Weve doubled down on fundraising. We grew from 17 million to 36 million last cycle. And now were on track to spend 50 million this cycle. This will make us the largest spender in the legislative space across the country. Were proud to announce that ve raised more than 17 million which is all of what we raised in the 2016 cycle. And for the first time we outraised our republican counterpart organization. We continue to be on a path with financial parity which is something that we couldnt say in the 2010 election cycle. So as i mentioned earlier, theres been unpress denlted attention on state legislative races from our ally institutional democratic organizations because of our work. Were also excited because many of these groups have committed to 2020 spending. Many of these groups hadnt have not spent at the state legislative level ever before. And theyre following our lead since we are raising and spending 50 million this cycle. So now thats an overview of the programs that weve developed. And i wanted to share now how well implement them in 2020. So for the first time the dlcc is publicly sharing our chamber tarts. Targets. Weve never released the real target list like you might see at other places and were excited to do this right now. So lets lets talk about lets move and talk about the targets. What will work in all 50 states to support caucus and elect more democrats. These dark red states are the targets that we believe question flip. Lets talk about kansas. Many of you may have heard the shoutout of democratic governor laura kelly. Incredible win. Our interest is to break the super majority in the kansas state house. We only need to flip one seat in order do that. That would allow laura kelly to veto more bad bills. It would allow her to veto redistricting maps which are drawn by the kansas city legislature. She was able to get a republican to cross over for the veto of the abortion ban. But she needs a stable of support in the state legislature. Were interested in providing that. Thats why kansas is on that list. Well be watching to move some of these states on to the main target list. So tate states like georgia and florida we want to move them on to the target list as time goes of course this is 19 chambers across 123 states. As you can see here were on complete offense. These are all republican chambers. We feel very confident about holding the chambers that democrats won in 2018. This election is a once in a Generation Opportunity to flip state legislatures. Only every 20 years do we have both a president ial election on the preredistricting election. So this is significant. As we know there will be record voter turnout this year. And so this is a 20year opportunity. The next time well have this opportunity, ill be 60. And ill likely be retired running a spin yoga studio. An ice cream studio. Spyastacone. Think about that. This is a 20year opportunity. Or targets align with the president ial battleground which is another key point were building early infrastructure by building strong legislative campaigns. These campaigns will ultimately benefit the nom neesm and this makes sfens you think about the 134 state legislative sneets a place like minnesota, folks running micro campaigns, smaller campaigns all across that state mobilizing their friends and neighbor to go out and vote that will surely benefit them at the top of the ticket. In addition to that we know we have the momentum to surpass our progress in the mid terms. 122 Million People voted in 2018. Based on some catalyst analysis, 156 Million People are expected to turn out in 2020. Thats a 28 increase in turnout. That would be a tidal wave since 2010. So we have this generational opportunity to change the composition of state legislatures while also 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, lets talk about our targets. These are on our list east to west. First North Carolina. Theres a democratic governor in North Carolina, roy cooper. In 2018, we both we broke republican supermajorities in both charities ants thats proven vital. And were now competing on more come pess active maps after a redistricting litigation. The governor in North Carolina doesnt have a veto over redistricting. So this makes it critical we flip one chamber red to blue. We only need six seats in the house and five to flip the senate. And there are so much in North Carolina. Governor coop ser back up for reelection hufpblgte u. S. Senate races and several Democratic Congressional pickups on these potentially redrawn map. We have a sense of what has happened. We made early investments to make shurel strong candidates were recruited. House democrats have filled 117 of the 120. And Senate Democrats filled 50 out of 50 seats on the ballot. We learned after republicans failed in recruitment that we were on a stronger path to flip the senate from red to blue. We knew that as soon as the filing deadline happened. Looking at this map, we know we have strong opportunities as republicans are not challenging as many seats as democrats are lets go to pennsylvania. Pennsylvania tuge state for redistricting. An opportunity to have the next democratic trifecta. After virginia theres another democratic governor there, tom wolf. We won a special election near april of 2019. This is a preview i think of whats to come out in pennsylvania. 20yearold navy veteran flipped it. She won it by four points. A swing by nine points. So thats significant. Well hold that state senate seat as we go into the election in redistricting, winning the legislature will help us have a strong amount. Theres a Strong Supreme Court thats very helpful. We only need nine seats to flip the house. And many of the state senate seats that are the most favorable, pennsylvanias seat es are staggered. So we dont have the opportunity to take them out in 2018. This will be our first crack in pennsylvania since trump was elected. So weve got to go after it. There are also special lerkses coming up. We at dlcc we have a great track record of wing special. So well flip some of these Pennsylvania House seets. And folks know, pennsylvania is a maj