WASHINGTON — The presidential campaign of Andrew Yang, the insurgent Democratic presidential contender, laid off 130 staffers on Wednesday night, several former staffers say, including on-the-ground canvassers and organizers who’d been working for months to prepare for upcoming primary elections in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Several newly fired staffers tell Rolling Stone they felt blindsided by the announcement. They say they had their campaign email accounts disabled and then were notified they were fired without any warning or explanation.
The campaign would not confirm the exact number of employees fired. Yang campaign manager Zach Graumann said in a statement that the firings were part of the “natural evolution” of the Yang campaign after the Iowa caucuses, in which Yang finished outside of the top tier of candidates. The Yang campaign would not explain why it fired employees in New Hampshire and South Carolina, which have yet to vote.
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