'I am sick of them': GOP's nonstop spamming of 'abused' small-dollar donors backfires

For years, Republican small-dollar donors have faced a barrage of spam text messages from political campaigns begging them to send them cash -- and now it may be coming back to haunt them.

The Associated Press reports that "Donald Trump’s contributions from small-dollar donors have plummeted since his last White House campaign" and the reason appears to be that donors are fatigued from receiving so many solicitations from the former president and his allies.

John Hall, a Republican fundraising consultant and partner at Apex Strategies, tells the AP that the aggressive spamming has turned many of them off from giving to campaigns.

"If you make a donation to almost any Republican candidate today, within three weeks you are going to start getting 30-50 text messages from other candidates you have never heard of before," he explained. “Donors feel like they are never thanked, they feel abused, and they don’t know how to get off lists. This has a chilling effect on everyone’s fundraising."

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The AP also talked with some former GOP donors who expressed deep frustration with how they are constantly being begged for cash.

“I am sick of them asking for money,” 51-year-old voter Susan Brito told the AP. ”I am disabled, you are sending me text, after text, after text.”

“I don’t even look at my texts anymore during the political season. It is just so many that I miss personal ones because there are so many of the political ones,” said 70-year-old voter Bill Ruggio, who this year has stopped giving to Trump's campaign. “It kind of sticks in your craw.”

Doug Deeken, the Republican Party chair in Wayne County, Ohio, said that he feels these GOP donors' pain.

"It is annoying," he said of the spam. "It annoys me!"