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How elderly dementia patients are unwittingly fueling political campaigns

I checked my dad's email the other day for something and I hadn't logged into it in months and he has literally never made a donation and his inbox is swamped by actblue shit.

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  • One 82-year-old woman, who wore pajamas with holes in them because she didn’t want to spend money on new ones, didn’t realize she had given Republicans more than $350,000 while living in a 1,000 square-foot Baltimore condo since 2020.

    By the time a Taiwanese immigrant from California passed away from lung cancer this year at age 80, she had given away more than $180,000 to Trump’s campaign and a litany of other Republican candidates – writing letters to candidates apologizing for not getting donations to them on time because she was going into heart surgery. She had only $250 in her bank account when she died, leaving her family scrambling to cover the cost of her funeral.

    And a 78-year-old, a widow who limited showers to save on her water bill and canceled her long-term care insurance, didn’t understand why the retirement savings her husband had left her was dwindling so quickly. After CNN reached out to her family, they learned that the woman gave more than $200,000 in donations to Democratic political groups and candidates.

    • My only hope is that as more boomers and genx'ers see the millons in inheritance that was stolen from them, will they stop supporting either party.

      But I don't put it past most Republicans to double down.

      "My papi unknowingly paid Trump $2million and I know he would want me to do the same!"

  • You mean to tell me electoral "fundraising" that has become indistinguishable from internet scams are exploiting the population most susceptible to scams?