In Reply to: Trumps screws over crime victims posted by mh on October 27, 2026 at 11:03:17
I get several text messages every day begging for money, and I tune them out. I am so annoyed that I haven't donated at all this year.
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GOP insider admits they ‘beat the absolute hell’ out of donors and now they’re fleeing
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Tom Boggioni
Oct 27, 2026
7:02AM ET
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Republicans are fretting not only about next week’s midterms but also about the future of GOP fundraising, as small donors tune them out, which party strategists blame on years of panicky pleas for cash.
Adding to their woes, according to Politico, is a heavy reliance on Donald Trump and on big donors funding super PACs, a cash edge Politico Playbook warned may come with an expiration date.
Republicans have held a money advantage all year because a few deep-pocketed donors have bankrolled super PACs, with Elon Musk chipping in nearly $500 million on his own. But candidates’ own campaigns have brought in comparatively little because, aside from Trump, Republicans still haven’t figured out online fundraising, Politico reported.
The latest campaign finance filings lay bare the scale of the problem. About 1.5 million federal donors have given through WinRed, the GOP’s main online fundraising platform, so far this cycle, down from 2.2 million at the same point in 2022. Over the same period, donors on the Democrats’ ActBlue have grown by about a third, from 4.9 million to roughly 6.6 million.
The gap is glaring, as Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico alone has had about as many ActBlue donors this cycle as all Republican candidates and committees combined had on WinRed, Politico reported.
GOP digital strategists, some of whom have warned about this for years, blame donor burnout from relentless appeals to the same supporters.
“We beat the absolute hell out of low-dollar donors with texts and emails without expanding our [donor lists], and now no one pays attention,” lamented Wesley Donehue, a South Carolina-based GOP digital strategist.