Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton came out strong in the latest fundraising reports, a welcome sign for the candidates as they’re both still locked in competitive primaries.

March’s Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports were filed late Wednesday night and showed the state of finances for the remaining presidential candidates and their super PACs. Both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders had a high burn rate and spent a lot of cash during March.

Trump raised $14.6 million, but spent $13.8 million and only came out with $2.1 million cash on hand. Sanders almost tripled the amount raised by Trump with $46 million, but spent $45.7 million — rounding out the month with $17.5 million cash on hand.

Trump has decided to self-fund his campaign and has loaned himself more than $36 million since he announced his candidacy in June. In March alone he loaned the campaign $11.5 million. However, he did take in $2.7 million in outside contributions. Even though Trump only has $2.1 million on hand, he can open his wallet at any time — something he made clear with a recent announcement that he planned to spend $20 million to get to 1,237 delegates.

While Clinton was significantly out-raised by Sanders, she benefits from having about $12 million more cash on hand. She raised $26.8 million and spent $28.7 million while enjoying a whopping $29 million cash on hand to propel her forward in her primary fight against Sanders.

Cruz, on the other hand, raised $12.5 million — his largest haul yet — and spent $11.8 million, but came out with four times the amount of cash on hand as Donald Trump, with $8.8 million.

[lz_table title=”How Do 2016 Presidential Candidates Use Their Money?” source=”March FEC Reports”]Bernie Sanders
Spent,$45.7 million
Raised,$46 million
Cash on hand,$17.5 million
|Hillary Clinton
Spent,$28.7 million
Raised,$26.8 million
Cash on hand,$29 million
|Donald Trump
Spent,$13.8 million
Raised,$14.6 million
Cash on hand,$2.1 million
|Ted Cruz
Spent,$11.8 million
Raised,$12.5 million
Cash on hand,$8.8 million
|John Kasich
Spent,$4.6 million
Raised,$4.5 million
Cash on hand,$1.2 million
[/lz_table]

The candidate who fared the worst in March was Gov. John Kasich who, despite raising $4.5 million, came out of the month with a dismal $1.2 million cash on hand — leaving the long-shot candidate coasting on fumes in the months leading up to the convention in July.

The FEC reports also include the amount of money raised and spent by the super PACs which help to supplement the candidates’ efforts, even though they can’t directly coordinate with them. It is important to note that super PACs have the flexibility to raise money without caps on limits, which makes them appealing to large donors.

Lots of anti-Trump super PACs have been formed in the wake of the Never Trump movement, and are now playing an active role in states with nominating contests. Our Principles PAC, founded by Romney campaign veteran Katie Packer Gage, raised $8.4 million but ended with less than $423,922 on hand. In the month of February Our Principles PAC had only raised about $4 million, so it saw a decent uptick in donations, but it also aggressively spent $11.2 million in March attacking the GOP front-runner.

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The most well-poised super PAC is Priorities USA Action — a pro-Clinton super PAC. The group raised $11.7 million and at the end of March had $44.6 million left on hand. The super PAC seems to be smartly stashing its cash for the highly anticipated general election fight.

Cruz has also been the beneficiary of the Never Trump movement, with more pro-Cruz super PACs forming as a result of his position as the best candidate to take on Trump. Some of the same people, such as Dick Uihlein, are giving large sums to both Our Principles PAC (anti-Trump) and Trusted Leadership PAC (pro-Cruz). In total, the seven pro-Cruz super PACs reported $21.3 million left on hand and took in $10.4 million. Trump’s newly formed super PAC, Great America PAC, has yet to file with the FEC. But the group made a $1 million ad buy nationally with a focus specifically in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Connecticut — states that will hold primaries on April 26.

With candidates on both sides of the aisle promising to take the fight for the nomination to their respective conventions, there’s going to be millions more spent ahead of the remaining primaries in the days and weeks ahead.