A new survey of California ahead of the state’s June 7 primary shows Hillary Clinton with a 13-point advantage over Bernie Sanders.
The Hoover Institution Golden State Poll, administered by YouGov, has Clinton with 51 percent support and Sanders with 38 percent. The result is somewhere in the middle of erratic polling results of the Golden State in recent weeks, which have shown Clinton with a lead as small as 2 points and as large as 18.
The push toward next Tuesday, which includes a handful of states other than California, is all but assured to push Clinton beyond the delegate threshold needed to secure the Democratic nomination for president. However, Sanders has continued to campaign hard, and in a sign that all is not quiet in the race, California governor Jerry Brown endorsed Clinton Tuesday morning, lending his support to a candidacy with which he has less in common than he does with Sanders’s bid.
“I have closely watched the primaries and am deeply impressed with how well Bernie Sanders has done. He has driven home the message that the top one percent has unfairly captured way too much of America’s wealth, leaving the majority of people far behind. In 1992, I attempted a similar campaign,” Brown wrote in an open letter to voters, posted Tuesday.
Clinton continues to struggle with younger voters and voters showing “no party preference,” according to the poll, with her trailing Sanders among each group by 31 points and 40 points, respectively.
