Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 Biden's fiscal program: What is the likely market impact? McConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security MORE told a crowd at a rally in Indiana he would win the state’s primary Tuesday just hours after confirming his campaign has laid off hundreds of staffers.

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“And with your help, we’re going to win here in Indiana next Tuesday,” Sanders said in an auditorium at Indiana University.

“We have now won some 1,350 delegates to the Democratic convention,” Sanders said before mentioning, as he typically does at rallies, the unexpected rise his campaign has seen in the polls since he announced he would run last April.

But earlier Wednesday, the Sanders’s campaign began letting hundreds of field staffers go following more primary losses to rival Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhat Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Bipartisan praise pours in after Ginsburg's death Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death MORE Tuesday.

Sanders pushed back against the idea that the cuts indicate he’s winding down his campaign and conceding to Clinton.

“We want to win as many delegates as we can, so we do not need workers now in states around country,” Sanders told The New York Times.

“We don’t need people right now in Connecticut. That election is over. We don’t need them in Maryland. So what we are going to do is allocate our resources to the 14 contests that remain, and that means that we are going to be cutting back on staff.”

Indiana carries 83 delegates. Polling shows the two candidates in a close race; RealClearPolitics's average puts Clinton up by 4 points.

Clinton still leads Sanders in pledged delegates, 1,644 to 1,316, according to The Associated Press delegate tracker. When superdelegates are added in, Clinton’s lead grows to 2,164 to Sanders’s 1,355.