Money not well spent...

Rubio super PAC raised $25 million last month

Major donors rallied to the Florida senator in February as the GOP establishment's best hope to beat Trump.

By Kenneth P. Vogel

The super PAC devoted to Marco Rubio raised a whopping $25 million last month as the Republican establishment rallied around the Florida senator in the hopes of stopping Donald Trump from winning the GOP presidential nomination.

The PAC, Conservative Solutions PAC, raised some of its biggest checks from major donors who had previously supported other candidates who dropped out, according to a report filed Sunday afternoon with the Federal Election Commission.

The report showed that Conservative Solutions PAC received $5 million from Arkansas Poultry magnate Ronnie Cameron, who had previously donated to $3 million to a super PAC supporting Mike Huckabee’s since-aborted campaign, and $5 million from a New York insurance company associated with Hank Greenberg. The company, C.V. Starr & Co., Inc., previously donated $10 million to a super PAC supporting Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign.

Other seven-figure checks in February came from Florida car dealer Norman Braman (who gave $1 million last month, bringing his total for the campaign to $6 million), New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer (who gave $2.5 million, bringing his total to $5 million) and Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison (who gave $1 million in February and $5 million overall).

The PAC spent $21 million last month on ads boosting Rubio or attacking his rivals, with $4.7 million spent on ads that primarily focused on the GOP frontrunner Trump.

Rubio dropped out of the race Tuesday after Trump handily won the primary in Rubio’s home-state of Florida.