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Beyond California, Sanders signaling post-primary future

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bernie Sanders' political revolution — and how far he's willing to take his presidential campaign — may hinge on the outcome of the California primary Tuesday, with …

Beyond California, Sanders signaling post-primary future

Ken Thomas, Associated Press

Updated 11:20 am, Saturday, June 4, 2016

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In this June 1, 2016 photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign rally at the Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto, Calif. With the end of the primaries ... more

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bernie Sanders' political revolution — and how far he's willing to take his presidential campaign — may hinge on the outcome of the California primary Tuesday, with Hillary Clinton poised to clinch the Democratic nomination in the coming days.
Sanders is showing few signs of surrender as end of the primaries loom, pointing out his differences with Clinton and vowing to take his bid to the party's convention in July.

A Sanders victory in California's primary would be an embarrassment for Clinton and embolden the Vermont senator to aggressively lobby superdelegates — elected and party officials — to switch their support to him. Clinton has begun forcefully defining Trump on national security and temperament for the White House, but Sanders refuses to yield as California polls narrow.
"If you tell Hillary, she's going to get very nervous. She looks nervous already," Sanders said Friday night in Cloverdale, noting that Clinton had planned to campaign in New Jersey but flew to California. "It sounds like the campaign is not quite over."
In fact, Sanders seemed an afterthought to a confident Clinton as she campaigned this week in California, hitting hard at her likely general election rival, Donald Trump, instead, and telling supporters Friday that "if all goes well, I will have the great honor as of Tuesday to be the Democratic nominee for president."