When Donald J Trump entered politics in 2015, the RNC club -then headed by Reince Priebus- was dismissive. The RNC club was/is an echo-chamber of big donor and corporate influence. However, the blue-collar message carried by Donald Trump resonated with middle-America. The forgotten men, women and families responded in more ways than the immediate (and never diminishing) first place in the polls, they opened their checkbooks.
The scale of response from the MAGA supporters was unknown to the Club during their early 2016 efforts to position, Rubio, Cruz and eventually Kasich to take down the crass vulgarian. However, despite the Club’s earnest efforts, Donald Trump was indefatigable and his supporters were unfazed by the corporate media attacks.
If any issue ever highlighted the disconnect between the RNC club and the base of voters they claimed to represent, the campaign support for Donald Trump and the America-First agenda was a case study.
Then something happened…. in March and April of 2016, the club began having to accept that Donald Trump was going to be the nominee. The people behind MAGA were not going to leave him.
As a result of the Republican club’s terms and conditions, the RNC President, Reince Priebus, got his first look at the Trump campaign books. For the first time, the RNC president saw the number of people who contributed to the campaign account of Donald Trump. That was the club inflection point.
The RNC had never seen the number of donations, small donations, for a single presidential candidate, ever. The most shocking statistic was not the amount of money raised by Trump, but the sheer number of donors supporting him. Trump’s MAGA donor base file became the most valuable commodity the RNC club had ever seen.
The vast majority of these small donors had never appeared on any donor filings before. These were the hidden voters, the monster voters, the people who never previously engaged in politics or financially supported a political candidate before.
THESE were the MAGA voters. These were the millions of previously invisible middle-Americans who finally had someone they could support. They finally had a candidate who was talking about their issues, the issues of the working class.
After Priebus saw the books, from that moment forward the RNC Club was 100% behind the nomination of Donald J Trump to become the republican presidential candidate. Access to the donor files that candidate Donald Trump assembled became the necessity for every Republican running for office.
The club rules means that in order for the club to formally support the candidate, Donald Trump had to share his supporter files with the RNC. In combination with their corporate sponsors, the RNC has been harvesting from that set of MAGA donor files ever since they claimed to accept Donald Trump as the head of the club. However, there is an interesting dynamic….
Most of the MAGA donors did not convert to being RNC club donors. Instead, they remain loyal to the one person who has not stabbed them in the back, lied to them and played political games. The majority of the MAGA donors still contribute to Donald J Trump, because he alone has earned that trust while visibly walking through the fire of political opposition from both wings of the UniParty in DC.
A recent article on the current state of political contributions reflects exactly this dynamic. There are more small donors, grassroots MAGA supporters, in the contributions to President Trump -a man no longer holding office- than there are in the donors to the RNC Club. This lack of transference has never happened before, not even close.
Save America PAC and Make America Great Again PAC
The primary mechanism for supporting President Trump and the MAGA agenda remains [DonaldJTrump.Com]. That is where the primary mechanism Save America JFC (joint fundraising committee) exists. According to Politico –SEE HERE– this mechanism raised $62 Million in the first half of this year, and now holds over $90 million on hand.
This money is also out of the reach of the RNC Club… [you can imagine their teeth gnashing]. As a result, President Trump has two subsidiaries under SAVE AMERICA JFC. (#1) Save America Leadership PAC (Donald Trump), and (#2) Make America Great Again PAC (Corey Lewandowski). In total the organization has raised over $82 million in the first half of the year and holds $102 million in the bank.
Politico – Former President Donald Trump’s political committees brought in $82 million during the first half of 2021 and have $102 million in the bank, according to federal filings made public Saturday evening.
The figures, shared first with POLITICO, underscore the profound reach of Trump’s fundraising power. While the former president is out of office and has been deplatformed on social media sites, he maintains a massive online donor network that he could lean on should he wage a 2024 comeback bid.
The scenario is virtually unprecedented: Never in history has a former president banked nine figures’ worth of donations to power a political operation. (read more)
This $102 million is the MAGA war-chest which will be used to support MAGA candidates in 2022, mostly through the MAGA PAC (Lewandowski); and then position President Trump into 2024.
This is the donor fuel from ‘We The People’, directed into President Trump to support MAGA candidates, in an effort to avoid the RNC club using donor funding to support republican candidates that are against the MAGA agenda.
This is the Big Ugly fuel….
Trump can raise a lot of money, but it won’t make any difference if election fraud continues and expands in 2022. Private donations are funding the Arizona forensic audit. Is it legal for the MAGA PACs to fund the other forensic audits now being contemplated in Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Nevada? Is it legal for Donald Trump himself to fund those audits, assuming he has the cash to do it?
If raising alot of money wont make a difference President wouldn’t do it. He is because it does.
A friend of mine was one of those never donated before donors, in 2016.
A small business owner, he donated the max ($5000?) to DJT campaign, in 2016.
Soon after the election, he recieved a letter from the IRS, saying he owed them as a result of an error in his previous years tax return.
The amount? $5000.
The coincidence was not lost on him, and he said he will never donate, again.
Was this another ‘rogue’ Lois Lerner type operation, intended to effectively discourage donations?
I donated to Ted Cruz, and the next thing I knew the IRS was disallowing a tax credit they had never minded before. To them I am a minnow not worth having one employee taking 5 minutes to check. This has been going on forever. My father, who donated to Reagan every year, was thoroughly audited two years in a row during the Carter administration: the only two times ever.
Biden has proposed doubling the IRS workforce by adding 87,000 employees. It’s a potential nightmare.
You donate to exercise your right of free speech and can afford it, not for a tax break. Don’t put this info in your 1040.
True, nobody is forced to take a deduction by law!
Political donations are not deductible.
political donations are not deductible and are not reported on returns but are public records.
the point is that the IRS is taking public record political donation lists and tracking down donors and harassing them with audits!
I do not report anything I don’t have too.
If you give more than $200 to a candidate / committee during an election cycle, candidate must report your donation(s) to FEC via FEC Form 3. That’s public information. Name/employer/occupation/address
It was probably flagged by an A.I. program developed to search and find “deplorables”
Political contributions are NOT deductible. Sorry guys!!! Some organizations get around it by saying that they are for the “advancement” of their race, color, ethnicity, etc. and go through the channels to get the 501(c)(3) classification.
I donated 25 30 bucks monthly through out the campaign and after until
Pres Trump asked you to step up & you DECLINED, Manuel? Don’t you want to PROTECT OUR ELECTIONS? Last Chance! Donate NOW: bit.ly/2V78742
Stop2End
First President Trump never ask me anything second my donations are a seed of faith in restoring our country. I have never DECLINED service to our country. I get 3 or 4 messages each day from same account. They evidentiary don’t care who they offend.
That sounds like WinRed. According to Wikipedia, WinRed is a for-profit fundraising platform built for the GOP to compete with ActBlue. Not only did they bombard my email but I got several text messages a day from them until I stopped them. Many were condescending and offensive. Supposedly, a lot of GOP campaigns including Trump’s used it, but I didn’t give them any money. I don’t respond well to negative sells. I like to donate directly to campaigns. I haven’t given the RNC any money in years.
Yeah, same here with WinRed. I also donated to the RNC and they started harassing me for donations again in May. Finally I told the caller that after the RNC refused to Stop the Steal I would never contribute to them again and to remove me from their call list. That finally did the trick.
If you go to DonaldTrump.com and click the donate button to give money to President Trump’s PACs it sends you over to WinRed.com
I was very suspicious but apparently President Trump is using WinRed to take donations to his PAC. I am a monthly donor.
In 2020 I gave money to President Trump directly and to the RNC Congressional funds but after January 6 I cut them all off.
So sorry, I would donate to Trump, but surely not RNC. And I will not start up with Winred again. They hassled me on and on, enrolling me monthly without permission, nope forget it.
His donors are the leverage he has over the rnc fully conspiring with Dems to destroy him.
This is why winred is involved.
In a world where death is available to you at all times, a strategy that makes sense in Playland won’t in reality
I have heard that the RNC handles winred.com
President Trump is not yet a candidate, so all donations in his name go to WinRed. Once he declares his candidacy, he can then collect donations under his own name, and the money will go directly to him.
Winred powers the donation mechanism at DonaldJTrump.com that Sundance mentions in the article.
Just saying…
In March DJT attorneys notified the GOP to stop using his name in fundraising. That makes sense in light if the information in the article.
Smart move if it took effect.
If you go to donaldjtrump.com and click on the contribute button upper right or all the way to the bottom of the page, it takes you straight to winred.com, so how are we to reconcile that?
I just donated to a candidate who is trying to unseat the gov. in Nevada. The receipt came back WinRed. I am reading this post because I thought WinRed was totally in for the ‘rinos’; really confused now.
Bezos and Dorsey are trying to take over the world of finance (again).
1. https://www.publishedreporter.com/2021/06/23/op-ed-jeff-bezos-is-trying-to-takeover-the-accounting-world-and-must-be-stopped/
2. https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/08/afterpay-ceos-nick-molnar-and-anthony-eisen-just-got-a-whole-lot-more-handsome-26bn-payday-each.html
Dorsey just bought “After Pay” in Australia thru his “Square”company…$39Bill…Yes with a B!
And this pile of money is why Trump will remain undet seige from the Left and from the RNC. They want him shut down and his candidates unable to run for any office.
The RNC is dead to me. DEAD!
I let them know this with every letter they send. And I will use my own stamps if necessary to send the message.
YES! they send these questionnaires and hope to get you are cranked because they are asking what YOU think. Then at the bottom they ask for donations because this will fix all of what you just were quizzed on. ARRGH. I have not given to RNC in years either. I use a now infamous BLACK SHARPIE and write what I think of their lack of support of Trump and his allies. I then tell them I do not give to any organization but only to the candidates. (only to the ones Trump has vetted and is backing). I send this all back to them using their postage paid envelope. Go to GETR.com and get the latest from the Donald.
It’s GETTR.
I send the postage paid back to RNC and tell them I will never donate as long as they continue to have the communist leftist censoring social media links on their site. I suspect they make money from them and that’s even worse. As long as those links are there, we know whose side they are on.
Democrat election funding will be built in to the “Infrastructure” bill–they use taxpayer money to get themselves elected.
grrrr!
No one will save our republic through a campaign contribution.
Only when a militia asks me for arms will I contribute.
The day I googled “why 16 Republican candidates” was the first introduction to Sundance. Been a daily reader since.
I do recall Priebus saying Trump brought more small donors than any other candidate.
And that folks is the tell. These slimy bastards don’t give a crap about any of us, they just want the coin to fund their lifestyle while tossing a few bucks to a loosing candidate.
The charade must end. Congress only enrich itself. They must be removed
At that point we were sending donations directly to Donald J. Trump at his office in New York. The republican party was not involved. I won’t donate again until I know it is not going to winred or the republican party.
I sort of got discouraged giving money to Trump when he endorsed Rubio. There was another candidate I can’t remember who but the people in his state said he wasn’t a good choice. Made me decide to wait and see who else Trump chose. When Sundance posted the six running against the rinos, I donated to three of them. I dearly love Trump but the advisers around him make me cautious.
Because you have parties.
By design the allegiance is to the party, and livelihoods are attached to making the party successful to feed yourself
Donating $25/month to the SaveAmerica PAC keeps one under the IRS radar.
I ignore every other R-related plea for funds, and actually delight in returning their requests in their self-addressed envelopes. I use a Sharpie to tell them, if they’d done their job, President Trump would still be at 1600!
Do not donate to the NRCC, NRSC, the RNC, or even to Heritage. Send contributions to candidates you’ve researched and know can beat the lousy incumbents who have been there way too long. Citizen legislators, and preferably ex-military who have the discipline, education, and love of country to work for their constituents.
If you want to go to the trouble you can have a piece of sheet metal cut into the size of playing cards. Put as many in those postage paid envelopes as possible. The RNC will get a nice mailing bill of about $7 for one envelopes. You ll never hear from them again.
i agree. Giving $ to the Republican Committees or Heritage is like sending $$ to bill Kristol.
If you donated to Trump then you receive e-mails from the likes of Nikki Haley and the thrill of getting Pence News. The RNC phony survey in the mail is an added bonus. Know a few who send it back to the RNC with a note outlining reasons they aren’t donating. Suspect the RNC has received many notes from angry rank and file voters.
Interesting and seemingly encouraging.
However, since the days of the “Tea Party”–which was really MAGA Americans responding to the threats to our country for the first time–fake “conservatives”, establishment Republicans, and neo-conservative MIGAs have skillfully co-opted Normal Americans’ energy, support and donations.
These fakers are quite adept at fooling MAGA “rubes” into supporting unrelated issues (War on Iran! Sharia!) as “conservative.”
They set up front organizations, fund writers/pundits/babblers to write/pun/babble about their issues.
Their efforts siphon off energy and money from actual Normal American issues, candidates, and efforts.
Trump himself ended up sucked into the co-optation by neo-cons. After first rejecting the dirty money in the 2016 campaign, Trump finally cashed Adelson’s checks. And was immediately co-opted.
Same thing will happen here and today. Normals have a very, very hard time separating neo-con blather from solid American values and interests. They pull our strings, and we perform for them.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Lol. President Trump was co opted by neo cons? Source: trust me. Response: No, dear sower of division and doubt but thanks for the chuckle. President Trump has been one of the few prominent Americans who always publically called out the neo cons and their take over of the Republican Party.
Really, Cozette? It would be great, were it true!
Trump talked a great game–before he was elected. “End the stupid wars!” After he was elected, he filled his administration with neocon war-forever warriors. Trump pretty much left that angle to his son-in-law, Kushner, who proceeded to MIGA, with American money, blood, and good will. Nothing to do with MAGA.
Ever heard of John Bolton? How about Elliot Abrams? Rex Tillerson? Pompeo? Pence? Gorka? Nikki Haley? Ever hear of assassinating a foreign general in a third country? And on and on.
Remember how Trump got us out of Iraq? Afghanistan? Remember how he ended the war in Syria? Remember how Trump stopped all the SF action in Africa? Oops…! Nope, didn’t happen. All neocon operations, all continued and expanded under MAGA.
Publicly calling out and actually taking action against them are two entirely different realities.
Too bad reality feels like “division.” Reality’s really all we’ve got.
I would expect that you love to listen to yourself talk to your audience of 1 (you). I for one do not, if you find a better candidate, please enlighten us. I bet you gave yourself a thumbs up. I certainly did not ?
I donated to PDJT during 2016, 2020 and then during Stop the Steal. I found out that all the StS money went to the RNC, and not a dime actually went to contesting the stolen election. I got most of those contributions back. I want to donate, but I refuse to donate unless the money actually goes to PDJT, not some RNC hack. I can’t find out how to donate money to PDJT. Could someone please tell me how to donate money so that it goes to support Trump and no one else (except those who are aligned with him)?
Click on DJT.com and click on donate. Then scroll to the bottom (without donating) and you will see the dreaded “Powered by Win Red” which is the RNC money vacuum. I’ve said this before and I would love to be wrong, but all these donations for President Trump seem to be going through the RNC. That is counterproductive as far as I am concerned.
That MAGA donor list has led to my tagging and blocking more e-mails as “spam” than any bot could have. If it isn’t from the Trump website he specified, BLOCK!
I clicked the support button at DonaldJTrump.com and scrolled to the bottom of that page only to find “Powered By WinRed” prominently displayed.
I clicked the WinRed logo and then clicked “About” at the WinRed homepage. This is what it says about WinRed:
WinRed is the official online fundraising platform designed to help the GOP win.
So what’s the deal, sundance? GOP is skimming WinRed contributions, aren’t they? I do not want a single penny of my money going to GOP RNC or any of that UniParty crookedness. Thanks.
I second that. What is the deal?
That is exactly what I am talking about Max.
President Trump had his team create winred to replicate Obamas actblue. It makes it easier to donate to candidates because they’re all in one place. Before, Republicans had to know the candidate they wanted to donate to then track down the candidates website. Obviously President Trump let the RNC use winred since he’s the head of the RNC and Republican control of the House and Senate was/is better than Commie Demo crat control.
Bottom line, Trump had his team create winred. Fearfuls seem to imagine he’s using something the RNC created when the opposite is true. Naturally those hoping to undermine President Trump and the success of his Save America PAC prey on donors RNC anger by encouraging distrust of Trumps funding platform.
I’m sure that you believe that but I need a confirmation before I start sending money.
Quite frankly I don’t even like the way Winred site is set up, it’s like navigating through a minefield.
No. WinRed was formulated sometime after Obama was installed. Maybe they want people to think Trump had something to do with putting WinRed online but I remember contributing to the Romney\Ryan campaign thru WinRed. If Trump owns WinRed now he should say so loud and clear.
My concerns as well, waiting on an answer.
I won’t donate not another red cent to politics which has done nothing but screw me over!!!!!!
The reason Trump has received this kind of money is he did what he said he would do AND fighting all along the way.
People trust him which is why there is an effort from both political parties to tarnish him.
I trust Trump I would start donating again but Trump has a habit of getting screwed over and I’m not convinced that Winred is MAGA
Winred is just the payment vehicle.
All is lost? Pity you werent in Texas after Santa Ana took the Alamo and so many American legends and heroes were killed. That dopey “Remember the Alamo” rallying cry could have been nipped in the bud 🙂
and your advise is?
T R U M P
W O N
BIGGLY!!!! HUGELY!!!! MONSTROUSLY!!! UNDOUBTEDLY!!!
As Magic Eight Ball prophesied on that very evening, “Without a Doubt”.
None of this matters unless the truth of the massive 2020 Election Theft is first publicly acknowledged, and our Election Laws are changed substantially, and the DOJ/FBI/CIA and Dominion are all dealt with .. in advance.
“The scenario is virtually unprecedented: Never in history has a former president banked nine figures’ worth of donations to power a political operation.”
With all due respect SD, I contend that the massive (Obama coven and their) Davos/Soros/PRC/RINO/Dark Money machine has been under construction behind the scenes since at least the Clinton administration. The only reason they’ve urgently pushed all the go-buttons now, is that PDJT unexpectedly began to deconstruct their global golden-goose, hence he’s a direct threat.
Optimally, they might have preferred another generation or three, of mind-numbing, socialist education/indoc, sell-out diplomacy and the Cold War fading from living memory. Under those conditions, the Demoralization, Destabilization, Crisis & Normalization phases of the Great Reset could have been conducted much more discretely and smoothly.
This is how the takeover of RNC will happen. Money will sway a change in leadership and then a name change like “WE the People party” (WPP) that sends the RNC into the dustbin of history just like the Whig party.
If the RNC has no donations they can’t use it for influence or support of candidates. Guess who candidates will beg for money? Guess which ones will get it?
Which still boils down to the uncertainty expressed here, about where, EXACTLY, do our donations end up.
I have serious question. When I go to Trump website to give it takes me to WinRed is that money being pooled for the RNC.
Hey RNC.
Can You Hear Us Now?
The best thing Trump can do is put pressure on GOP senators to tell Biden there will be not infrastructure bill until he closes the border. We need to get on this bandwagon, pursuant to Mark Levin.
If Americans don’t rise up and put a stop to the engineered destruction or our country by the leftist Democrats and JoeBomma, we will not have a country in 2022. It must be done now!!!!! Read Mark’s new book “AMERICAN MARKISM”.
Who controls this ‘war chest’. I haven’t given a dime to anything that has RNC or GOP attached to it and I won’t in the near future. So where is this money and who decides how to spend it. If Ronna McDaniel or anyone 8n RNC has any say, you can forget about getting the House or Senate back. RNC did nothing to challenge the election of 2020. Nor have they individually offered any criticism of the election process in blue States. Fkem!
I hope he puts that money to good use, funding young Conservatives running in the primaries that Mitch refuses to fund ..John James comes to mind. And I hope he has better advisors on WHO to fund and WHO to endorse, because some of the endorsements he gave during his presidency were iffy at best and downright horrible at worst (Mitch for instance).
He needs grass-roots advisors who know the candidates and what they really stand for, not RINO advisors whispering in his ear (Priebus), doing Mitch/McCarthy’s dirty work.
He has plenty of money and plenty of power, he just needs the right people pointing him in the right direction.