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Sanders' top campaign aides will remain, but many others will lose their jobs | Getty Sanders campaign to lay off massive numbers of staff

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign will lay off at least half of his presidential campaign staff on Wednesday, following the last multistate primaries Tuesday.

The layoffs, confirmed late Tuesday by a Democrat connected to the campaign, are mostly to be on the advance team and come after Hillary Clinton sealed off the Vermont senator’s 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 next week 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 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 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.”

A former state director who 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 them to do,” the former state director said.

