How do you explain an incumbent candidate’s flooding someone’s email inbox with 23 messages in a single 24-hour period? Especially when that someone isn’t a supporter and is a member of the opposing political party?
It can be a measure of how poorly the campaign vets its mailing list, how disorganized the entire organization is. And that could reflect on how disorganized the incumbent’s administration really is.
It also could be a measure of just how desperate the candidate is that he would blanket a recipient with messages not only from him, but ostensibly family members and political allies.
That’s what Donald Trump has done with me over the weeks and months of this seemingly interminable campaign.
Some of the messages are downright funny, others actually pathetic.
Here’s one I received at 6:16 p.m. on Saturday:
“Tom:
“I emailed you.
“The Vice President emailed you.
“My sons, Don and Eric, both emailed you.
“Lara emailed you.
“Newt Gingrich emailed you.
“Ted Cruz emailed you.
“Sarah Huckabee Sanders emailed you.
“The Trump Finance Team emailed you.
“And now I’m emailing you. Again.”
(I’d already received 14 separate emails from all of the aforementioned by the time that one popped up in my inbox. Oh, and Lara, in case you didn’t know, is Eric’s wife.)
Trump continued in that email:
“Each day, my team has given me a list of Patriots who stepped up to help us reach our Final End-of-Month Goal, and each day I’ve noticed YOUR NAME is STILL MISSING.”
Well, yeah….
Another email features a roster that appears to scroll down a lengthy list of donors from various states, along with the amounts contributed. If you just glance at the moving scroll, it looks quite impressive.
But on closer inspection, you can see that the same names appear over and over and that there are actually only about a dozen names at best on the list. But it looks impressive.
What’s really amusing about the whole sad effort is that each email starts out with the personal salutation (in my case, “Tom”) before moving on to a pitch for money from the self-proclaimed billionaire who boasted in 2016 that he didn’t need campaign contributions, that he was going to finance his own campaign.
And now we learn that Trump has coyly constructed his campaign pledges so that donors unknowingly may be consenting to automatic bank withdrawals to the Trump campaign all the way through December to help him in his anticipated legal battle over the election outcome.
At one time, I deleted Trump’s emails as fast as I received them. But as they began increasing in frequency in the closing days of the campaign, I’ve started saving them.
In hopes I won’t get sued for copyright infringement, my inbox is now
Louisiana Voice 
Makes me glad that I never gave them my new email address, lol.
Funny thing is I never gave them mine.
Probably on a voter list they bought. I just updated mine last month, so I’m sure I have that to look forward to blocking in the future.
I smell maga desperation.
The above provides the proof that the ZERO cost to the sender is not matched by the inspection and labor cost to the american public – recipient. Hours of costly employee time per day can be lost because of this failure of costs to the generator. This contrasts with the US Postal Service’s advertising / business mail of which the paper, printing and then postage IS substantial, greatly influencing efforts to make quality sending decisions….This after years of observation provides support for a charge on broadcast emails that inturn might be used in support of our constutionally mandated physical delivery US Postal Service.
These VIP emails can make people with low self-esteem feel “important”. Therefore, this campaign scheme will be effective in scamming those constituents who desperately need to feel “valued”.
I think they can be intimidating. It implies that the president has made note of who & who has not contributed to the deduct box.
I too am getting these emails and I’m not a Republican. To me, it seems accusatory and intimidating that the writers of these voluminous email requests for money end with one from the current POTUS indicating he didn’t see your name on the “gave money” (nice) list. It seems to imply that the POTUS is keeping a naughty and nice list for later use, which is intimidating. It reminds me of protection payments required by the mafia. Am I the only one that gets that “Big Brother is watching you” vibe from this? I find it scary – not funny,
Frankly, I detest these kinds of emails from ANY candidate…I get most of mine thru texts from my cell phone number that apparently has gotten many a “for sale list” a penny or two. And, moreover, I wish that we could have a complete campaign REFORM. It should not last 4 or 2 or 6 years for any candidate and should not cost the budget of a third world nation to fund. I think we can find out all we need to know about any candidate in about 6 weeks before any election and there should be a cap on campaign spending and some kind of “truth” in campaign ads….I know….I am dreaming….these would be way too sensible for today’s American politics. But, I can dream, can’t I?
David Vitter got term limits passed in Louisiana. I think that should be where we start in Congress. Also, I think there should be some type of term and/or age limits on the federal judiciary. Lastly, if the Democrats win the presidency and both chambers of Congress they’ll have the power to review any and all reasons to impeach federal judges that violate their oaths of office. Just because one is on the Supreme Court doesn’t mean one cannot be removed for something like perjurying oneself at one’s confirmation hearing,
You can have some fun with the RNC fund raiser. “Carl” is in a rush to hit and run-but you can surprise him with a sly or bodacious comment about anything trump or corrupt oligarch. He really seems to perk up.