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Front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, following resounding wins in New York and several northeastern states over the past two weeks, are creeping ever closer to the magic delegate numbers they need to clinch their parties’ presidential nominations (1,237 for Republicans, 2,383 for Democrats). Indiana, whose primary voters go to the polls on Tuesday, is setting up as a must-win for Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Here are five credible predictions on who will win.

Clinton outraises Sanders in April

Hillary Clinton outraised Bernie Sanders in the month of April, according to fundraising figures reported Monday by the Democratic front-runner’s campaign.

Clinton’s campaign took in a total of $36 million in April, of which $9.5 million went to the Hillary Victory Fund, a joint fundraising operation between the campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and state parties. Of that total, $26.4 million of the $36 million went to the Clinton campaign itself, which enters May with $30 million on hand.

Sanders makes a public plea for Democratic superdelegates to switch allegiances

White House hopeful Bernie Sanders, who has fought the Democratic establishment throughout his campaign, made an extraordinary appeal Sunday for party insiders to help deliver the nomination to him, even if he doesn’t catch rival Hillary Clinton in the remaining primaries and caucuses.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has always faced an uphill battle in is campaign to be the Democratic nominee in 2016. That he has managed to mount a competitive challenge to the frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, probably means something relating to his ability to inspire and mobilize certain groups of voters, or the inherent weakness of frontrunner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, or both. But his chances of winning the nomination are grim at this point, according to Milo Beckman ... Read More >>

Dear democratic socialists, political revolutionaries, Bern-feelers at large: We need to have a talk.

Let me begin by saying that I bear no ill will towards Mr. Sanders. Nothing that follows should be misconstrued as an attack on his policies, his track record, his electability in November or his character. I’m not a corporate media crony, or a plant from a pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC. I’m just a guy who believes in the predictive power of cold, hard data.

What Bernie Sanders wants

Quietly acknowledging that a direct path to the Democratic nomination is all but blocked, Bernie Sanders and his advisers are zeroing in on making policy changes to the party platform and reforming the presidential nominating process.