A new CNN poll shows just 2 points separate Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Clinton is the top pick for 45% of voters, while 43% back Trump. Throughout March and April, polls had Clinton with a double-digit lead over Trump. Now researchers say those close numbers are likely the result of a more unified Republican party.
2008 Presidential candidate and Arizona Senator John McCain is weighing in on this year's election. He's up for Senate re-election himself, and told his supporters the political climate is tumultuous. Then he challenged the crowd, saying, "If anyone here thought six months ago that Donald Trump would be the Republican Presidential nominee, raise your hand. If you raised your hand, you're lying."
McCain and Trump have had a rocky past. Last summer, Trump said McCain wasn't a war hero, despite his military past because he "likes people who weren't captured." Although McCain has verbally supported Trump, he has yet to appear on the same stage as him.
Trump has picked up an unusual endorsement, not from a person or a group, but from a country. North Korea published an editorial in a state media outlet yesterday calling Trump a "wise politician," "a far sighted presidential candidate," and also advised Americans not to vote for "that dull Hillary." Trump has not responded to the vote of confidence, but in the past, has said he'd talk to North Korea.
In the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton received a major endorsement from California's governor, a week before that state's primary. Today, Bernie Sanders had nothing but kind words for Governor Jerry Brown.
Sanders said, "I like Jerry Brown, but people can make their own choices. But again, what we have had to do, and we've done pretty well, in every state in this country has taken on democratic governors, taken on democratic senators, taken democratic members of the house, Democratic mayors and all of their political apparatuses and yet we've won in 20 states."
California is one of six states to hold its primary next week, and Clinton needs only 73 delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination. One of those states, New Jersey, closes its polls first and has 142 Democratic delegates to give out, so there's a chance Clinton could clinch the nomination before polls in California close.