Seeing that the RNC fired ALL of their phone donation solicitors shortly after this began due to lack of donations (and the immigration issue being the latest reason callers were giving), I doubt that this is true.
Anyways conservatives would and could donate directly to any conservative candidate they wanted, rather than going through the national RNC (who then determines which republicans get the money). Always better to donate to an individual candidate than thru the RNC, they know you and know they will have to account to you.
This is my point. They figured nobody was going to give to the RNC anyway, so they might as well at least generate donations to individual candidates, if nothing else.
I imagine I’m wrong, for all the reasons everyone here has offered - especially the one about the Republican pols being not all that smart. Still, it made me wonder, since I keep hearing how much $ this issue is generating for some.
I just don’t trust any of them. They say what they think will get them elected and look on their conservative base as useful idiots.