Trump and his favorite fundraising platform both face donor problems
Every so often, Matthew Hurtt receives concerning emails. The subject lines are each slightly different: "Stop charging my account," "Urgent!" and "Donation not approved," but the people who send them all want the same thing: to halt the Republican political contribution platform WinRed from making any more automatic, recurring withdrawals from their accounts. Hurtt is chairman of the Virginia-based Arlington County Republican Committee and says he's reviewed a "few dozen" of these types of emails since the 2020 election. When WinRed processes a contribution to a Republican campaign, the charge shows up on the donor's credit card or bank statement as a payment to "WINRED www.GOP.com, Arlington VA," according to a statement provided by Hurtt and reviewed by CNBC. As a result, people often mistaken
