LOS ANGELES (AP) – With a final blitz of TV ads and hand-shaking, Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are headed toward a potentially historic election in California.
And for the first time in the modern era, state voters could send two Democratic women into a November showdown for U.S. Senate, to replace Barbara Boxer.
Sanders is capping his long California swing Monday with stops in liberal bastions around San Francisco, including a get-out-the-vote rally with rocker Dave Matthews. Clinton is tantalizingly close to seizing the Democratic Party nomination but cautions that “it’s not over until it’s over.”
In the Senate race, Attorney General Kamala Harris and Rep. Loretta Sanchez of Orange County appear headed to a 1-2 finish Tuesday. That would send them to a November runoff under California’s unusual election rules.