An ABC News/Washington Post poll shows Trump leading Clinton among registered voters, 46 percent to 44 percent, but doesn’t give a general matchup between Trump and Sanders.
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As she has for weeks, Clinton avoided all mention of primary challenger Bernie Sanders, even as both campaigned in California ahead of the state’s June 7 primary.
Mr Sanders did little to dispel the acrimony between himself and the party – which he joined only previous year after more than two decades in Congress as an independent – when he said over the weekend that he was endorsing Ms Wasserman Schultz’s Democratic opponent this August in her Florida congressional district.
Clinton and Sanders are competing aggressively in California as primaries wrap up.
“The only thing standing between Donald Trump and the Oval Office is all of us”, she said.
She said that she wants to concentrate on campaigning in California, despite saying in 2008 that anyone running for president should be willing to “debate anytime, anywhere”. Though men are about evenly split between the two candidates, Sanders does much better with women, 61 percent to Trump’s 28 percent.
A senior Sanders adviser said the campaign has no specific reason to believe anything was miscounted, but is just checking to be sure since the race was so close.
“A number of months ago our campaign and her campaign reached an agreement on a number of debates, including one here in California”, Sanders told a crowd in Santa Monica, Calif. “And if we go marching into the Democratic convention with a lot of momentum, we’re going to march out with the Democratic nomination. But everything – that’s what democracy is all about”, Sanders said. That makes Tuesday’s primary results a popularity contest with no impact on the Democratic nomination.
Entering the final contests in June, Clinton leads Sanders by 271 pledged delegates according to a count by The Associated Press, but the self-described democratic socialist has vowed to soldier on and amass as many delegates as possible.
Clinton has the support of 49 percent of likely voters, compared with Trump’s 39 percent.
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The fundraising email from the Sanders campaign called for a $2.70 donation to be split between Sanders and Canova, a riff on the average $27 donation that fuels the Sanders campaign.
