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Presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., lost two more campaign staffers on Wednesday.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, media team members Russ Schriefer and Stuart Stevens notified McCain's new campaign manager Rick Davis on Monday that they were quitting.

Reportedly the staffers had not been paid.

The latest defections follow those of former campaign manager Terry Nelson and chief strategist John Weaver, who bailed out two weeks ago, and more more than a dozen senior staffers now gone from the headquarters in northern Virginia -- as well as state offices in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, according to the report.

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  Republicans strategists suggest that McCain campaign plans to begin running ads this fall may be nixed as donors turn away from the troubled campaign.

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