Posted on 08/21/2020 8:01:00 PM PDT by Williams
I don't fault the Trump campaign for making every type of pitch imaginable to get me to contribute.
I'm still a little irked at Melania, because she once failed to send me a calendar she promised, and I really believed she wanted me to have that calendar.
But can anyone educate me on the concept of "matching funds" and how it really works?
Ok, I figure that some rich donor or organization pledges to match every dollar raised during a certain period.
But tonight I received an email stating there will be a "700% match"! How does this work? If someone is really going to contribute 7 times all the other money raised, isn't it more important that they just contribute that huge amount? The 1/8 contributed by others seems to pale in the scheme of things.
Seems very gimmicky to me. Do we know who actually provides the matching funds, and do they really only contribute based on how much others contribute?
Hm in the past I believe I donated to the official campaign and avoided giving anything to the RNC or congressional republicans.
Now a lot of you have me wanting to be even more careful who I’m funding.
If I am going to give the campaign $1 million, they will send something out say that I will match the next million dollars of donations.
It gets some folks thinking if they did not contribute money will be left on the table.
I never believed that.
So folks did we resolve how one contributes to the actual Trump campaign?
I’m getting pitches from Corey Lewandowski and others and I have an account with what the small print says is a joint fundraising effort by the RNC and Trump campaigns.
Small print says something about not supporting any particular candidate, but you can direct your money to a specific candidate. It never says how.
So can anyone direct me to the actual official Trump campaign?
Go to his web site and make a donation.
You seem to be making this more difficult than it needs to be.
If you are shilling to get Trumps web site posted, just post it.
Yeah I’m “shilling”. You can’t give me a link to his website?
The Internet is full of search engines.
I have a policy of not giving to politicians. I have no idea what his donation site is.
Again, you are making this horribly difficult on yourself.
You’re belligerent and you don’t want a discussion that simply leads to how to donate to Donald Trump. You really had no need to answer my simple question, which you can’t and won’t answer. Yes you are making it harder but I don’t care. I’m sure you have your own logic.
My logic is this: if you are that interested in donating, you would do a search and find the site.
The fact that you set up camp here, pretending to not know how to do it is insulting everyone’s intelligence.
And now you blame me. It’s been two days. You STILL haven’t bothered to do a search? What is wrong with you?
My post was asking about matching funds. An informative discussion resulted. In the course of that discussion, people warned against donating to the “wrong” group.
Upon reading the many solicitations I receive, some are for products and masquerade as political organizations. All, including “winred.com” where I have donated, say in the fine print that they support no particular candidate.
Based on that, and the fact that an internet search does NOT easily resolve this, I asked which site is considered the official one.
Instead, I got your criticism.
If that floats your boat, God bless you.
As it was explained—by me and others—the matching thing is a scam—well not a scam in that it is illegal—its a scam in that the money is still being donates (at least 99% of the time.)
So, it doesn’t matter where you donate—whether it is a pac or Trump himself.
And then you go off asking over and over where you should donate.
Can you see where that might be frustrating for people who thought they were being helpful.
What you seem to think is that your donation matters. It doesn’t. There are enough special interests donating, the candidates don’t need your dollars.
You are better off donating to a local candidate who is REALLY in need of donations and where they will answer the phone if you call them.
It is a gimmic.
As a gimmic, it’s a good one. It amplifies the “big donor’s” resources. Some people are motivated to give, that otherwise wouldn’t be.
The issue is broader than delivery problems or deliberate ballot “loss” by USPS employees.
One state is mailng out ballots that require the voter to certify a falsehood, that the voter asked for the ballot.
Gives a sense of the value of certifications. Seems the government is fine with certifying falsehoods.
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