Shake-Up Hits Bernie Sanders' Campaign Staff

Three top strategists have left the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., NBC News is reporting.

Tad Devine, Mark Longabaugh and Julian Mulvey, all partners in a political consulting firm, have cited creative differences as their reasons for departing the Sanders’ campaign, according to the network news.

"The entire firm has stepped away,” Longabauch. “We're leaving the campaign. We just didn't have a meeting of the minds."

Devine was Sanders’ chief strategist in the 2016 campaign and the other two played key roles. Their firm produced 275 television, radio and digital ads for the campaign. The strategists also produced the video of Sanders announcing his 2020 candidacy.

"The campaign appreciates all the good work DML has done and wishes them well," Sanders' new campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, said in a statement, referring to the departed staffers by the name of their firm.

The Sanders’ campaign took in $10 million in less than a week from several hundred thousand donors he announced his candidacy.

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