Together, efforts to elect the two Florida candidates have totaled more than $91.4 million. | Getty Bush and Rubio super PACs blow away the GOP field in spending

Big spending by campaigns and super PACs has clearly not translated into front-runner status for either Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio, according to the latest data on cumulative advertising buys.

Together, efforts to elect the two Florida men have totaled more than $91.4 million. Efforts supporting the men at the top of the Republican polls — Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — spent less than one-eleventh of that total on advertising. Combined.


Bush's campaign has spent $2.9 million, and the Right to Rise USA super PAC supporting him has unloaded $55.8 million, according to ad-tracking data from SMG Delta reported by NBC News on Wednesday, for a total of $58.8 million. Rubio and allies have spent a combined $32.6 million, $11.6 million of which came through the campaign and an additional $21.1 million from outside groups.

Trump's campaign has spent just $4 million on ads, while the Cruz campaign has spent just $1.9 million, with the balance of the $4.2 million spent on his campaign coming from outside groups. In the latest Real Clear Politics national average of national polls, Trump holds a 16-point advantage over Cruz and leads the rest of the field by a wide margin.

In the Democratic race, Bernie Sanders is now outspending Hillary Clinton and her backers, at $12.8 million to date compared with $11.6 million for Clinton ($11.4 million from the campaign, the other $200,000 from Priorities USA).

