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To: Interested Parties
From: Craig Auster, Vice President, Political Affairs
Date: November 1, 2024
Re: LCV Action Fund 2024 Pre-Election Final Updates
LCV Action Fund has made our largest investment ever this election to elect climate candidates up and down the ballot across 43 states because the stakes have never been higher, the contrast has never been greater, and the need for more progress has never been clearer.
We made record investments into our GreenRoots member mobilization program to turn out voters, and together with our state affiliates, we have endorsed nearly 1,800 candidates in the 2024 election cycle from town council to the White House. Over 10,000 LCV members have completed over 22,000 volunteer shifts heading into the final four days of the election and are continuing to canvass and phonebank across the country to ensure voters have a plan to vote and get out to cast their ballot.
LCV Action Fund endorsed 221 federal candidates this election cycle, including 27 for the U.S. Senate and 193 for the U.S. House. Of the candidates endorsed by LCVAF, 40% are candidates of color, 49% are women, and 5% are LGBTQ+. You can find all of LCV Action Fund’s publicly endorsed candidates here.
The day after President Biden withdrew and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, LCVAF and major environmental organizations announced our endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris’ historic campaign to be the first Black woman and South Asian person to be elected president.
A number of other LCV Action Fund-endorsed candidates will make history if elected, including:
It has never been more critical to be united in our fight to elect Vice President Kamala Harris, Governor Tim Walz and candidates who will fight for our communities and our rights, which is why this year, LCVAF is making it easier for climate voters to find endorsed candidates, including those by our state affiliates, with LCVAF’s first-ever Climate Candidate Guide, which was shared by Billie Eilish and her mother and founder of Support+Feed Maggie Baird, Saie, and more.
Alongside Patagonia, Climate Voters for Harris-Walz, and other climate and environmental organizations including Clean Energy for America, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Action, NRDC Action Fund, Sierra Club, and The Wilderness Society Action Fund, we’ve mobilized our members and reached voters on the ground and with Climate Power’s Too Hot Not to Vote, Justice Environment, Maggie Baird, and others to reach climate voters online.
This cycle, LCV made our largest investment ever for our GreenRoots member mobilization program across 14 states as well as a national distributed organizing team. GreenRoots has mobilized LCV members to volunteer on behalf of LCV Action Fund-endorsed candidates in every election since 2012.
Over 75 organizing staff have recruited over 10,000 LCV members who have completed over 22,000 volunteer shifts heading into the final four days of the election. LCV members have written letters and postcards, made calls and knocked doors on behalf of Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and 27 U.S. Senate and House candidates. We’ve shared the stories of what inspired some of these organizers, including Achol and Magali.
Our volunteers in California have been knocking doors across districts for House candidates Will Rollins, Derek Tran and Dave Min, in addition to volunteering for weekly phonebanks with the Rollins campaign. Over the last few weeks they have ramped up efforts for GOTV, including canvass events with special guests Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis and DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene.
GreenRoots volunteers in Georgia have been calling and texting voters, writing letters, and waving signs to show support for candidates up and down the ballot, and organized a phone banking event called, “Coffee, Climate, and Convo.” Volunteers also got to meet Maya Harris, Vice President Kamala Harris’ sister, when she stopped by the campaign office to thank everyone for their work.
This weekend, LCV board member and Georgia Conservation Voters Executive Director Brionté McCorkle will be speaking at Billie Eilish’s Overheated climate conference this Sunday in Atlanta ahead of her concert, and LCV members will join Senator Jon Ossoff and other climate leaders at a canvass in Forsyth.
Montana GreenRoots volunteers have been working with Senator Tester’s campaign to reach voters on both sides of the aisle through weekly virtual phonebanks and Saturday canvasses, focusing on actively listening to voters’ concerns.
In Nevada, our team welcomed LCV members and employees from Patagonia who traveled from California to join local volunteers to knock doors in Summerlin for Vice President Kamala Harris, Senator Jacky Rosen, and Representative Susie Lee, knocking over 1,500 doors on Vote Early Day.
Volunteers in Virginia have been showing up in force for Vice President Harris, Senator Tim Kaine and U.S. House candidates Missy Cotter Smasal and Eugene Vindman, including at early vote kick offs in Richmond and Virginia Beach. LCV members made over 17,000 calls to Virginia voters in the first week of the program.
The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Action Fund, the connected federal political action committee (PAC) of the League of Conservation Voters, works to elect leaders who stand up for a clean, healthy environment and to defeat anti-environment candidates who oppose climate action. Since the 1990 election cycle, LCVAF has helped elect and re-elect 95 U.S. Senators and 483 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Over the last several years, our efforts have also helped elevate climate change and clean energy as critical issues in key elections.
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