Bernie Sanders will lay off “hundreds” of campaign workers ahead of the California Presidential primary.
The Vermont senator will trim his staff as he focuses his remaining campaign efforts on winning as many delegates as possible.
“It will be hundreds of staff members,” Sanders told the New York Times. “We have had a very large staff, which was designed to deal with 50 states in this country; 40 of the states are now behind us. So we have had a great staff, great people.”
We want to win as many delegates as we can, so we do not need workers now in states around the country,” he said. “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.”
Hillary Clinton beat Sanders in four of the five East Coast states that held primaries on Tuesday. Clinton won Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, padding her overall big lead despite losing Rhode Island to Sanders.
Pennsylvania and Maryland were the two biggest delegate prizes on Tuesday and Clinton is now fewer than 300 delegates away from clinching the Democratic nomination.