True...I shall accept your post, with one caveat....Ted said what he had to, to get money. He wasn’t offered it...he went begging to people for it and said what he had to, to somehow please them, or else he wouldn’t have gotten the donation.
If it happened... it would have been better to frankly do it like Trump did. Said he’s putting together a deal. Whoever likes this agenda may donate. Voila. It seems to be working.
I don’t know what happens to the proceeds of an abandoned candidacy either. Maybe he’ll just give it back as far as it is traceable.