Officials in the Republican Party are worried that Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale may "sabotage" their fundraising lists after Donald Trump "destroyed" the GOP.
Yahoo News reported that while the party is developing new fundraising tools to match Democrats' small-dollar donation machine that led to sweeping victories in the 2018 midterms, some consultants say operatives are concerned about adopting it because of Trump.
"They’re scared of adopting it," a senior conservative consultant told Yahoo. "Imagine Trump owning our data — handing everything over to that guy, the guy who f****s with everybody, who has destroyed our party."
By combining the party's Data Trust voter vault with Revv, an online payment system, the new database known as WINRED "is set to be the official online fundraising tool for the Trump reelection campaign, the RNC, the official campaign arms for House and Senate Republicans, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Campaign Committee," Yahoo reported.
But because it will allow the Trump campaign access to lists used by down-ballot candidates, some operatives may be hesitant to use it.
"It’s basically letting Trump sabotage our lists, and we know we can’t trust Brad Parscale," a senior GOP campaign consultant said. "It would be stored in Data Trust — which Brad has complete access to. ... He has every incentive to not protect our data."
The consultant demonstrated that the problem is Trump by noting that "if this was [conservative mega-donor] Sheldon Adelson starting this, I would have no problem with it."
Another Republican familiar with the efforts to get GOP campaigns to use WINRED said the Trump campaign will have "zero access" to data and claimed the concerns are little more than "sour grapes" complaints from those who seek to protect "the professional political consultant class."
