David Goldfischer

David Goldfischer (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Colorado. He did not appear on the ballot for the Democratic primary on June 30, 2020.

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Colorado has been my home for the past 30 years, the place I chose to raise my children, experience the wonders of our mountains and root fanatically for the Colorado Rockies.

I am running for the Senate to help meet our greatest current threat to national security: the attack-foreign and domestic-on our democracy. My highest priority, as I campaign and in the Senate, is to secure and restore our Republic-based on free and fair elections and equal rights for all.

My career in national security has included work on nuclear disarmament at the Brookings Institution, building post-9/11 national education programs for United States Northern Command and National Defense University, and running a small business doing disaster planning for Colorado. As founding director of the International Security program at the University of Denver, I have spent 28 years educating current and future security professionals.

I have also taught inner city high school students, Native American children in wilderness Alaska, and university students from throughout the United States and around the world. And I share a core belief of America's founders: effective education inoculates citizens against the lies and divisions on which demagogues feed.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Secure Our RepublicRepair Our DemocracyPolicies that Unite Us

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I am passionate about fighting climate change; reversing the declining standard of living; ensuring good healthcare and affordable education for everyone; implementing a humane policy toward immigrants and refugees; lifting the historic stain of racism, and realizing our Republic's foundational commitment to equal rights for all; pursuing the fight to end our other scourges, from gun violence to homelessness, from the opioid epidemic to our crumbling infrastructure; and, in the face of accelerating technological change, I am determined to advance policies that harness scientific advances to serve-not threaten-humanity.

But this is not a normal election year. This is a year in which an American President-empowered by Russian attacks and a corrupted Republican Party-threatens democracy itself. If that danger is not confronted and repelled, all of the public policy passions that I share with other Democrats-and with the majority of Americans-will face only continuing setbacks. Thus, the core object of my passion has unavoidably become the defense of our democracy.

That is why I call on progressives and moderates, liberals and principled conservatives-as found among those supporting the Lincoln Project-to embrace the core value that unites us: our love and respect for this 230-year old American experiment in the rule of law, equal rights for all, and free and fair elections. Each of us must passionately engage with and defend our greatest public policy of all: democracy!

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