Good on Trump for holding.
If he needs ads, he’ll buy them, but not until then.
I predicted long ago that Trumps judgement would cause aneurisms here at FR, and from reading this thread it looks like that may be the case.
He is holding his money because he knows that Hillary has never been his opponent. I sent him a note before the end of the primaries. Obama, Kaine, Kerry, Biden have never been pro-Hillary.
If/when she gets pounded in debates then she is over. They will say, “A vote for Hillary/Kaine is really a vote for “Biden/Kaine” or “Michelle/Kaine”... you name it. The Electoral College puts the new person in.
Trump knows this is a possibility. By now he should not trust anything he sees with his own eyes.
Dems are not Reps. They are not going to give up just because their candidate fails.