What happens to the $?

[bill]

With a whole herd of grifters running for the GOP nomination, I was wondering what happens to all the money they collect for their campaign when they drop out of the race? Do they get to keep it?

-bill

[brooklynite]

1. 1) They may not be collecting that much (think: George Pataki)

2) they can keep it in an account for other Federal races/contributions to other Federal candidates

[Socal31]

2. Simple.

They pull it out in multiple structured transactions under $10k to avoid detec......oh wait.

[joshcryer]

3. There is rarely any left over.

They tend to run the campaign like a business and keep the funds spent. Many campaigns are in the red when all is said and done.

However, if there is any leftover, they can dump it into a "Leadership PAC" to pay off cronies who worked on the campaign. Or they can simply hold on to the money for later political gamesmanship.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/22/ex-politicians-keeping-100-million-in-private-slush-funds.html