A staff member for presidential candidate Tom Steyer used access he had previously been granted while working for the South Carolina Democratic Party to download data about rival Sen. Harris' campaign, state party officials said Monday.
The staffer, Dwane Sims, resigned Monday after an internal investigation, according to statement from the Steyer campaign Monday night.
The Steyer campaign on Monday said the Harris campaign information was inadvertently downloaded because of a glitch that happened when the state party restricted the Steyer campaign's access. "Within minutes of realizing this, Mr. Sims called the South Carolina Democratic Party to let them know of their oversight," Benjamin Gerdes, Steyer's national press secretary, told NBC News."He acted quickly to alert the appropriate people to rectify the matter, and the access was turned off by the party authorities."
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