GOP donation texts got 80-year-old dementia patient to blow entire life savings: report
Raw StoryCNN has done a deep dive into political fundraising tactics deployed by political parties to extract money from donors — and has found that Republican-aligned groups have been especially exploitative of elderly voters. However, CNN noted that "ultimately, some of these elderly, vulnerable consumers have unwittingly given away six-figure sums — most often to Republican candidates — making them among the country’s largest grassroots political donors." As a case example, CNN pointed to an 80-year-old Texas voter who is suffering from dementia and who "began making online political donations over and over again — eventually telling his son he believed he was part of a network of political operatives communicating with key Republican leaders." The CNN report noted that while both Republicans and Democrats have used these kinds of tactics to extract money from elderly donors, the GOP has embraced such spam texts much more wholeheartedly.
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