GOP raises over $620M through WinRed in third quarter
Republican candidates and committees raised $623.5 million through the year-old online donation platform WinRed, as the GOP hustles to try to make up lost ground to Democrats among online donors.
The numbers, shared first with POLITICO, pushes the lifetime fundraising for the platform well past the $1 billion mark since it launched in mid-2019, topping $1.2 billion.
The fundraising on the platform represents exponential growth for Republicans, more than doubling the $275.5 million that was raised through the platform in the second quarter of the year.
“The rapid success of WinRed is testament to unprecedented party unity behind the need to take on ActBlue — quickly and aggressively,” WinRed president Gerrit Lansing wrote in a memo.
The boon for WinRed comes as Republicans scramble to replace many of the in-person fundraisers that filled their coffers and combat Democrats’ advantage in online donations. Democrats up and down the ballot have routinely crushed their Republican counterparts in fundraising, largely from small-dollar donors who contribute through ActBlue, a Democratic payment processor that launched in 2004 and has morphed into a fundraising behemoth.
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