More than a half dozen major Republican candidates have now dropped out of the party’s presidential primary after their campaigns and allied super PACs collectively spent more than $300 million on their ill-fated electoral bids, Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show. The presidential campaigns of Ron DeSantis, Doug Burgum, Tim Scott, Asa Hutchinson, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie, Mike Pence and Francis Suarez, alongside super PACs that boosted them, spent at least $327 million during the 2024 election cycle, according to FEC records. DeSantis is the most recent candidate to have dro…