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Poll: Clinton and Sanders in dead heat in California

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are virtually deadlocked in California, the biggest prize of the 2016 Democratic presidential primary season, according to a new poll.

The survey, conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, finds Clinton with only a small lead over Sanders, 46 percent to 44 percent, among likely voters in the Democratic primary next month.

With Hillary Clinton’s big edge in the delegate math, rival Bernie Sanders is looking for a victory in California’s June 7 primary. Although Clinton formally declined to debate Sanders ahead of the primary, another option surfaced Wednesday night: A potential one-on-one with Donald Trump.

“If I debated him we would have such high ratings,” Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, said of Sanders on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Why Bernie’s Bros Might Go for Trump

One of the great unknowns of the current presidential election cycle—a cycle without recent precedent in its unusual twists and turns—is whether the fall campaign will see a convergence of the populist Left and the populist Right. Could a chunk of Bernie Sanders’ anti-establishment base really vote for GOP outsider Donald Trump in November? Could it be enough to swing the election in Trump’s favor?

Clinton allies blame Bernie for bad polls

Hillary Clinton allies worried about polls that suggest a tightening general election match-up with Donald Trump are placing blame on Bernie Sanders.

They say that the long primary fight with the independent senator from Vermont, which looks like it could go all the way to the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, has taken a toll on Clinton’s standing in the polls.

It’s all about California: Clinton hopes to avoid ending primary season with an epic loss.

There is a real chance that Hillary Clinton will have clinched a majority of delegates, and the Democratic nomination, before polls close in the California primary late in the evening of June 7.

But losing one of the country’s most diverse and Democratic states to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont would be such a damaging way to end this tumultuous primary season that Clinton is planning to spend millions there over the next two weeks.

Why Democrats will unite in November: Column

The likely Democratic presidential nominee has lost a ton of recent primaries and presides over a deeply divided party.

That’s a pretty good description of Hillary Clinton right now. But it’s an even better one of Barack Obama in 2008.

The Democratic National Committee made a bid to quell an escalating feud with Bernie Sanders on Monday by giving him more clout on the panel that will write the party’s platform, a decision made with an eye toward coalescing the party around likely nominee Hillary Clinton.