Posted on 10/15/2020 8:28:49 PM PDT by MrChips
It’s a lie. Could be to steal your personal info or just make you feel important for your pathetically small donation. The ones I really laugh at are donations to candidates where campaign finance law would make the match illegal from 1 person or corporate sources. You also have to wonder why they would bother with phones or websites to collect an extra $1 with $8 in hand for no effort? The simple answer is that the 800% doesn’t exist.
Don’t say stupid things.
As near as I can understand it, the RNC does those matches. Candidates have specific limits we can give, but those limits don’t exist at the RNC level.
I give directly to Trump and the individual candidates, so I am not matched.
So be it. Their money will still be allocated, and likely in much the same way.
I like Trump a lot, but all those emails have become truly obnoxious. Whoever is running that email campaign, do they really think it works? I delete them as fast as I can. I’ve already donated to the campaign.
I was getting multiples every day, supposedly from Trump and every member of his family. I ended up blocking them all.
The hilarious thing is that my fellow worker with total TDS is also getting spammed, and he doesn’t know how to block them. You know, he’s the co-worker who sends you 20 anti-Trump emails a day. I would block him too, but I have to work with him and every once in a while I will get emails relevant to our work.
Actually, the first one of these I saw was from the Cruz Campaign in 2016. It is very effective because it encourages smaller donors. Rather then saying, "I only have $10.00. Not enough to make a difference." You think that, "Hey my $10.00 turns into $60, so I'll donate. Like I said, very effective. I never saw it from Trump in 2016, but his team has used it a lot this year.
The money comes from donors who have reached their limits so they will match other donations so they are not breaking the finance laws!!
Sort of has the hallmarks of a Multi Level Marketing. Or a Ponzi scheme. I have gotten the same emails on my Iphone from the Trump organization, all because of my initial paltry $10 donation 6 weeks ago. I must say I find it kind of annoying since they all seem to come bearing the pawprints of Eric or Donald Jr., who I’ve come to feel are a bit overbearing.......but nobody’s perfect.
I get these Trump, or “Trump” emails every day as well, more likely every HOUR. I really am thinking this is a scam. .....want to donate? Go to the official site.
“The money comes from donors who have reached their limits so they will match other donations so they are not breaking the finance laws!!”
Ding! Ding! Ding! We finally have a WINNER!!!. The vast majority of responses are uninformed NONSENSE. This response is a FACT. The RNC has partnered with the Trump reelection campaign and Mega Donors to provide Matching funds or multiples thereof, thereby taking advantage of a loophole in the law put in place years ago by Dems.
I reviewed every response to your question before answering. The vast majority of responses are Pure Ignorance.
This “matching” promotion has become a fund-raising technique trend over the past two years for all kinds of non-profits. Very annoying. It winds up looking like a big scam, even when it’s not. It’s a legal fiction. They get someone to commit an amount they would have been giving anyway and then use that pledge as a hope for incentive to those they are apporaching. It’s usually not a scam to get your information, just a darn annoying fundraising technique.
If I want to donate, I go directly to the Donald Trump website ...
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Which website is that?
Various PACs
Wow, that would be like a 10% return on my investment. Sign me up! (Thought I’d take a shot at applying liberal math. How’d I do?)
It comes from the PAC’s
both sides do it...
You can thank Benjamin Franklin for the idea. He used it to raise $$ to start a public library in PA back in the day.6
You can thank Benjamin Franklin for the idea. He used it to raise $$ to start a public library in PA back in the day.6
All these spam text messages and emails have been ticking me off for months.
First of all, how did they get my numbers and accounts?
Second of all, stop treating my like I’m stupid enough to think it’s really Mitch, or Newt, or Don Jr., or Steve, or Martha, or whoever really texting me or emailing me.
Charities do this all the time. A deep pocket supporter agrees to contribute multiple dollars for every other dollar raised. This encourages smaller donors to give because they feel like their donations will have an impact. There is nothing illegitimate about it.
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