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WinRed is a for-profit fundraising platform built for the American Republican Party. [2] [3] Republican leadership began discussing the possibility of building a competitor to ActBlue within days of the 2018 midterm results. WinRed was called Patriot Pass in its initial announcements, with an expected release date of February 2019.
Trump has fundraised off his legal troubles before. Last year, following the publication of his mugshot in his ongoing 2020 election conspiracy case in Georgia, the Trump campaign used the image ...
The website redirected prospective donors to a page on fundraising platform WinRed that shows a black and white image taken by an Associated Press photographer that Trump has described as "iconic."
The Republican party’s WinRed fundraising platform collapsed briefly on Thursday under the weight of grassroots donors rushing to support Donald Trump following his criminal conviction in New York.
ActBlue was founded [6] in 2004 by Benjamin Rahn and Matt DeBergalis. Rahn and DeBergalis were joined in 2005 by Jonathan Zucker and Erin Hill. Zucker took over as executive director in 2007; [7] he was replaced by Hill in 2009.
In September and October 2020, the for-profit donation processor WinRed presented recurring donations as the default option, a feature that was revealed in the fine print. From mid-October 2020 to the end of 2020, the Trump campaign and the RNC refunded over $64 million to online donors who had complained they had only meant to make one-time ...
The Winred page includes pre-set donation buttons up to $1,000. In one email sent on November 22, the president-elect promoted a limited edition line of Trump mugs, stamped with his smiling face ...
For example, $35,000 in "credit card fees" was reported when WinRed typically charges only 4%, suggesting an excessive amount given the campaign's fundraising. [226] NBC News found similar discrepancies in Santos's campaign's use of WinRed, with $206,000 paid to WinRed instead of the expected $33,000, leaving $173,000 unaccounted for. [227]