On the second to last official primary day in the 2016 election, there's still a contest going on for one of the major parties and voters in six states headed to the polls.
Here are some of the most compelling storylines to watch.
Hillary Clinton has exactly enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination, according to ABC News estimates based on additional superdelegates allotted by the Associated Press Monday night.
Hundreds of those included in the count are unbound superdelegates, but even losses in California and elsewhere for Clinton today, while not anticipated, will not change that outcome.
This leaves Clinton the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, and makes her poised to become the first woman to secure a major-party presidential nomination in American history.
Notably and coincidentally, today marks the eighth anniversary of the day that Clinton got out of the race against Barack Obama, with the famous speech about cracks in the glass ceiling, after it became clear that Obama had a sizable majority of pledged delegates.
Even with enough delegates, she is still not the nominee -- he or she is chosen next month in Philadelphia.
Sen. Bernie Sanders is under no obligation to drop out after Tuesday –- or, for that matter, after June 14, when the last round of primary voting takes place in the District of Columbia.
He is free to make his case to superdelegates who are not obligated to formally commit to a candidate until the convention in Philadelphia.
Sanders has criticized the use of superdelegates regularly during his campaign speeches, but delegate math makes it clear that the chances that he wouldn't need some of his own to win a majority of the delegates.
Barring a blowout tomorrow by Clinton, either she or Sanders would need the support of superdelegates to secure an outright majority at the convention.
Sanders has spent $2 million on television advertising in California, outspending Clinton but falling short of his spending in previous important states, according to an ABC analysis of data from CMAG/Kantar Media.
Clinton, by comparison, spent $1.4 million on television ads in the Golden State.
Over the course of the campaign, the Sanders camp has regularly outspent Clinton on TV ads. For example, in New York, he spent $5.7 million on TV ads compared to Clinton's $3.9 million, and in Wisconsin, Sanders spent $2.7 million to Clinton's $1.3 million.
The latest Federal Election Commission reports show Sanders’ bank account has been dwindling. At the end of April, he was down to just $5.8 million after unloading almost $38 million during that month. He had more than $17 million in the bank at the beginning of the month.
While California has the most delegates up for grabs today, New Jersey is also a delegate-rich state that will be heading to the polls.
And for Donald Trump, his endorsement by the state's governor, Chris Christie, may come in handy.
Trump was in New Jersey in May where he helped host a rally turned fundraiser where attendees $200 tickets helped pay down Christie's campaign debt.
"There is nothing like New Jersey," Trump proclaimed, before praising the state's "wise guys."
Clinton and Trump have been sparring with one another as if they were directly competing for months, but after tonight's results, it could be official.
A super PAC supporting Trump released a negative ad squarely aimed at Clinton, while her campaign unleashed its own attack on the presumptive Republican nominee.
The latest national poll by Quinnipiac University that paired Clinton against Trump had her 4 percent up, 45 percent to his 41 percent, so within the margin of error.
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