Numbers from Nowhere

Mark Halperin reports on the latest word out of Hillaryland. Pretty much what you'd expect from her top advisors (what are they gonna do, admit that morale is low?) but there's one item that deserves more scrutiny than the press is giving it.

Plus: McAuliffe announces campaign has raised over $35 million with 200,000 new donors in February. They’ve raised $167 million total, $145 million for primary campaign.

Is there any independent verification for this number? If this were true, then it would hardly explain why the Clinton campaign is acting a lot like it's almost out of money altogether. My gut says that a huge percentage of the $35 million is maxed-out contributors (who constitute a majority of Clinton's donors) double dipping by contributing money earmarked for the general election. Romney tried the same trick after his loss in New Hampshire (later admitting that 3/4 of what he announced he raised was general election money).

It would certainly gibe with the Clinton campaign putting more effort into pretending they're winning than actually, like, winning.

Update: Aides say that "almost all" of the money is primary money. I'll believe it when I see the hard numbers at the end of the quarter.