TFG's Spammy Fundraising Emails Are Rankling Republicans: Report
Top GOP officials are worried that former President Donald Trump’s barrage of fundraising emails could crowd out other Republicans and harm efforts to compete with Democratic fundraising hauls, Axios reported on Wednesday.
According to the report, Trump’s two political action committees — Save America and the Trump Make America Great Again Committee — brought in more money last year through GOP payment processor WinRed than the combined haul of the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee. By year’s end, Trump’s fundraising arms had $122 million in the bank. The number would have been even higher had the Trump campaign not been forced to refund millions to those who unwittingly agreed to make multiple increasing donations because of shady fundraising tactics.
Trump’s committees are still sending out deceptive emails, as Shane Goldmacher of The New York Times pointed out on Wednesday.
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Republican strategists, all four of whom spoke to Axios on the condition of anonymity, cited several potential risks of Trump continuing to spam his donor base. These included donor burnout, the heavy focus on Trump’s brand, and other Republicans having to struggle to raise money. “Conservative donors are getting 6, 12, maybe even two dozen fundraising emails or text messages every single day,” one strategist said. “And the chances of them opening yours, let alone reading, clicking and donating, is pretty small to begin with. If you include Trump in that … your competition for the inboxes of donors just goes through the roof. … It makes it so much more difficult to convert any of these people.”
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