More than 3 million people have given money to Democratic candidates and left-leaning organizations this year through ActBlue, an online fundraising platform that helped drive the party’s small-dollar boom in 2018. More than half the donations given through ActBlue were made on mobile phones. Democrats are looking to ActBlue to help them compete with President Trump, who is a formidable small-dollar fundraiser. “Donald Trump has raised a bunch of money from small-dollar donors and has been an effective small-dollar fundraiser. They modeled WinRed after ActBlue, which boasts of raising more than $3.5 billion for Democratic candidates and causes since its founding in 2004.

Source: Washington Post July 17, 2019 09:56 UTC