Republicans are raging at their scam fundraising platform WinRed over a likely coming price increase for processing online donations, with the company telling the RNC and the Trump campaign that the 3.94 percent fee isn’t enough to run the operation, the New York Times reports.
WinRed President Gerrit Lansing told the MAGA party his company needs to reimpose a 30 cents per transaction fee that was done away with in 2021 and replaced with an increase from 3.8 to 3.94 percent, in line with the (non-profit) Dem counterpart ActBlue, which charges campaigns 3.95 percent flat per transaction. Now WinRed is telling Republicans it’s going to be 3.94 plus 30 cents per donation in 2024. Which obviously the GOP is not happy to be hearing, but probably pretty necessary to keep the platform running since they lost $6 million last year.
“WinRed is constantly evaluating what it takes to compete against and leapfrog ActBlue, combat the Democrats’ campaign to attack us by all means available, and still make the necessary investments to provide our customers with the features they need to win. At this time, WinRed has no announcements to make regarding pricing,” said WinRed in a statement. Meaning they will start charging more, because they would’ve just said “We’re not going to increase prices,” if they weren’t.