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How 2020 Dems Are Staffing Up—and Paying Overhead

PAY DIRT

The candidate with the biggest salaried staff by far: Elizabeth Warren.

Lachlan Markay

Reporter

Updated Apr. 25, 2019 4:26PM ET / Published Apr. 25, 2019 10:55AM ET 
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Welcome to Pay Dirt—exclusive reporting and research from The Daily Beast’s Lachlan Markay on corruption, campaign finance, and influence-peddling in the nation’s capital. For Beast Inside members only.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) presidential campaign reported paying a whopping 160 employees in the first three months of 2019, according to a PAY DIRT review of Federal Election Commission records, giving her by far the biggest salaried staff of any Democratic presidential contender.

The next biggest presidential campaign staff belonged to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who reported paying 86 employees in the first quarter.

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