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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 3 July 2019

GOP political donation tool to rival Trump's preferred app

WASHINGTON (AP) — A podge of more than a doz- sociated Press show that members of Congress mittees.
Texas company is launch- en for-profit companies to Republican leaders have who adopt the platform A spokesman for WinRed
ing a new political dona- collect online contributions. incentivized the adoption can get a break of up to did not respond to a re-
tion app for Republicans That cedes an advantage of WinRed. $20,000 on their member- quest for comment.
that will rival a similar plat- to a monolithic platform A National Republican ship dues, a term used for Dietzel says his app will be
form already adopted by like ActBlue, which allows Congressional Commit- the campaign cash they used by state parties across
President Donald Trump, a donors to give to candi- tee official wrote in one are expected to give to the U.S. and by several
move that could compli- dates up and down the message this month that Republican political com- GOP governors.q

In this March 29, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks
to reporters during a visit to Lake Okeechobee and Herbert
Hoover Dike at Canal Point, Fla.
Associated Press

cate GOP efforts to match ballot with a few taps of a
Democrats' online fundrais- smartphone.
ing success. Give.GOP founder Paul Di-
Give.GOP will launch on etzel said efforts by nation-
Tuesday. It comes a week al Republicans to adopt
after the rollout of WinRed, one online giving platform
a platform adopted by all run counter to long-stand-
national Republican cam- ing GOP beliefs in "free
paign committees and markets, equal opportunity
praised by Trump via tweet and capitalism."
after its debut. Dietzel also is the CEO of
Top Republican leaders another online donation
and donors have sought to company that Republicans
find one platform for their have used, Anedot, and he
online giving since Demo- said some have likened the
crats' online giving portal, party's top-down effort to
ActBlue , played a pivotal socialism.
role in their 2018 midterm "This sounds a lot like AOC,
success . The nonprofit not the Republican Party,"
served as a conduit that he said, using the initials for
funneled more than $1.6 outspoken New York Rep.
billion to Democratic cam- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
paigns. who identifies as a demo-
Republicans' campaigns, cratic socialist.
however, use a hodge- Emails obtained by The As-