This is one reason: How RNC Policy Lost a Winnable House Seat
The RNC is responsible for two technology platforms that it makes available to state parties and campaigns: voter data, which is managed by their designated vendor, Data Trust, and online fundraising, which is managed by another designated vendor, WinRed.
It became clear to me that the primary goal of Data Trust and WinRed isn’t to help Republicans at all but to enrich RNC-connected consultants.
The RNC’s designated door-to-door app, Campaign Sidekick, is also a failure.
The RNC’s designated payment processor, WinRed, is a for-profit company that built its platform on top of another for-profit payment processor, Stripe. All of that profit means high fees on campaign donations of nearly 4 percent.
It gets worse. Stripe is a woke tech firm based in San Francisco. In the 2022 election cycle, of the $392,000 that Stripe employees donated to federal candidates and PACs, 98 percent went to Democrats while just 2 percent went to Republicans.
The danger of building the party’s fundraising platform on a payment processor openly hostile to us was made abundantly clear when Stripe shut down President Trump’s WinRed account, cutting off his ability to raise money to fight his legal battles in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
Stripe shut down Trump’s WinRed account because, according to the firm, he was “inciting violence” with his rhetoric. But according to leftists like the employees who run Stripe, all Republican policies incite violence against homosexuals, minorities, immigrants, women, etc., thus no Republican is safe from having his or her finances cut off with no notice from these left-wing Big Tech extremists.
And what did the RNC do in response to their own payment processor shutting down President Trump’s account?
Absolutely nothing. Stripe remains in place under WinRed, growing ever richer with each Republican donation and using that money to help fund Democrats.
If you think that taking more than twice the standard card processing fee was excessive, hold on to your hat.
An average of 90 percent of most contributions prompted by emails and texts that are processed by WinRed goes not to the campaign the donor believes they are supporting but instead to fundraising consultants. This “RevShare” mechanism is built into WinRed and delivers the consultant’s cut instantly without the donor ever knowing—on top of the 4 percent that WinRed collects.
When I raised these issues to the current chairman, Ronna McDaniel, at the RNC winter meeting two years ago, she responded by ignoring me and telling a closed-door meeting of the RNC members that everything was fine.
WinRed is an awful scam company. Took me months to rid them of automated donations. One and done turned into six and I finally closed that account and canceled the card.
He job isn’t to get Republicans elected, it’s to carry out Trump’s orders.