Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said he would cut hundreds of jobs and re-shift the focus of his campaign toward winning the California primary next month, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
Sanders’ comments came a day after he lost four primaries in Northeastern states to opponent Hillary Clinton, who already had hundreds more delegates promised to her campaign. In the wake of those losses, Sanders said he didn’t need as many staffers around the country as he had before.
“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,” he told the Times.
While he declined to give an exact number of layoffs, Sanders said “it will be hundreds of staff members.” He said he would rehire those staffers if he won future contests.
“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,” Sanders told the Times. “So we have had a great staff, great people.”
The California primary is June 7.
How long before all the wheels come off Bernie?
I was a fan of your for a long long time but from what you’ve shown us these past couple of weeks I never really knew the person that was you.
Your wife has her own peculiarities too.
Nice couple!!
Not very socialist of him.
His campaign’s burn rate is astonishing, so it’s no wonder he’s scaling back - but not in my opinion to “focus on California”, but to make sure that there’s something left that he can roll into his Senate campaign & then retirement account.
I don’t know about that (and couldn’t care less about his wife), but I"ll admit, some of the things he’s said lately have me reconsidering my ballot in the upcoming Oregon primary.
So even if BS won every California delegate - and he won’t - it will not get him the number he needs. I am not so generous as to say he should stay in the race but it appears that Jane Sanders and Jeff Weaver have convinced him to carry on. I look for Tad Devine to leave since he is a Democrat operative - having been involved in Democratic P races since 1980. As someone noted - he cannot risk his bread and butter to continue to support his losing campaign against Clinton.