IIRC, the bulk of his funding is PAC money. He just can’t use that any way he damn well pleases. He can’t pay staff salaries, travel, lodgings, etc.
The amount of ‘candidate raised’ funding he has is relatively small. Much smaller.
That PAC money is pledged I’m guessing for advocacy, generalize campaign ads on issues on the like. To my mind, that money could be swapped over to another more promising bet without much trouble.......
I could be wrong, usually am....but I still don’t think he can just use that bundle indiscriminately.
Funny thing is that Right To Rise can’t afford and are also scared to spend money on advertising even though they lied to their donors that they were going to spend $15M on TV ads in IA, SC and NH.
Their donors are furious about being lied to by Mike Murphy.
All the Right To Rise money is going to salaries, office space, travel, restaurants, pollsters and consulting. But no money for TV advertising.
You are probably right, The Cheap Labor Express has to keep its options open as ¡Yeb! is flailing badly. The problem is, Rubberio, Kasich and the other potential Plan B candidates are doing even worse.