Lay off

Sanders campaign to lay off massive numbers of staff

By DANIEL STRAUSS

Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign will lay off at least half of his presidential campaign staff on Wednesday, following the last multi-state primaries on Tuesday night.

The layoffs, confirmed by a Democrat connected to the campaign late Tuesday, will mostly be on the advance team and comes as Hillary Clinton sealed off his path to the nomination by securing a majority of pledged delegates.

Sanders' top campaign aides will remain, but staff in the remaining states and personnel whose jobs don't relate to the last primary in Washington, D.C., or the Democratic National Convention will lose their jobs.

Some staffers said they were not made aware of the layoffs but the news, first reported by the New York Times, had been making its way through the entire Sanders campaign team.

"That's what everybody is kind of expecting because California's a big state. There's only one more primary left and that's D.C.," said a current Sanders staffer who's staying on. "There's still some state conventions but obviously it's the normal cycle of the campaign and then some people I would guess transition into helping out in national conventions but the national convention is still like a month away."

Another former state director who previously left the campaign earlier in the cycle said it was inevitable.

"As a campaign professional with half a brain, most of the field staff will likely get their 10-day notice tomorrow because there's no work for then to do," the former state director said.