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Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont spoke to a crowd at a rally at the Century Center in South Bend, Ind., on Sunday evening.

Sam Hodgson for The New York Times

Bernie Sanders Pins Hopes for Momentum on Indiana

By YAMICHE ALCINDOR

Good Monday morning.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont plans to spend Monday campaigning across Indiana, holding three rallies on the final day before the state primary and hoping to pull off a win after a tough week of election losses and campaign layoffs.

A win in Indiana, where Mr. Sanders and Hillary Clinton are in a tight race, could help Mr. Sanders regain some momentum, and an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released on Sunday showed them in a virtual tie in the state.

At a rally on Sunday night in South Bend, Ind., Mr. Sanders told thousands of supporters that he saw the state as important to helping him win the nomination. Still, last week, amid staff reductions, he began focusing less on attacking Mrs. Clinton and more on his views for shaping the Democratic Party.

Mr. Sanders, who trails Mrs. Clinton by more than 700 pledged delegates and superdelegates, spent Sunday afternoon urging the superdelegates supporting Mrs. Clinton to his side. He argued that many had given her their support before he entered the race and that he thought those from states he won should follow the voters’ lead.

The senator also said on Sunday that he and Mrs. Clinton were heading for a “contested” convention because she needs those superdelegates to reach the delegate threshold, rather than relying solely on the pledged delegates won through the state contests. Superdelegates, however, are widely considered to be part of the necessary delegate count, and Barack Obama needed them to secure the nomination against Mrs. Clinton in 2008.

Figures released on Sunday also showed that Mr. Sanders raised just $25.8 million for his campaign in April, down by more than 40 percent from March. Seeking to minimize the drop in fund-raising, the campaign’s spokesman, Michael Briggs, emphasized that Mr. Sanders’s average monthly fund-raising total was only $17 million. But that factors in Mr. Sanders’s fund-raising going back a full year to the start of his campaign.

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While Mr. Sanders focuses on Indiana, Mrs. Clinton will make appearances in West Virginia, which votes on May 10, and Kentucky, which votes on May 17.

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Donald J. Trump will also be in Indiana, with a rally in South Bend.

Eric Thayer for The New York Times

Ted Cruz’s Support Softens Among the Delegates He Courted

By JEREMY W. PETERS

The gravitational pull of Donald J. Trump’s recent primary landslides is drawing more Republicans toward him, threatening Mr. Cruz’s hopes of winning in a floor fight.

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Ted Cruz Stays Positive Despite Grim Numbers in Indiana

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Two days before what is widely viewed as a must-win primary for Mr. Cruz, a poll showed Donald J. Trump with a lead of 15 points among likely Republican primary voters.

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By TRIP GABRIEL

Closed factories and lost jobs are driving economic themes as the state votes on Tuesday, but this Midwestern manufacturing hub is no image of decline.

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The nation’s most populous state has almost always been an afterthought in the primaries, but this year’s Republican contest promises to change that.

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Bernie Sanders Says Superdelegates Should Follow Voters’ Will in Landslide States

By YAMICHE ALCINDOR

Mr. Sanders said on Sunday that the Democratic convention would be contested because was “virtually impossible” for Hillary Clinton to reach a majority of convention delegates with pledged delegates alone.

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Bernie Sanders’s Fund-Raising Plunges Amid Campaign Woes

By YAMICHE ALCINDOR

Mr. Sanders, who announced last week that he would lay off hundreds of workers, raised about $20 million less for his insurgent campaign in April than he did in March.

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What We’re Reading Elsewhere

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Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana writes in The Indianapolis Star about his reasons for endorsing Senator Ted Cruz of Texas before the primary on Tuesday.

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David Frum writes in The Atlantic that “in Trump’s aftermath, his enemies on the right will have to take stock and propose a meaningful alternative vision for the G.O.P.’s future,” while The Washington Post says that the latest Indiana polls do not bode well for the “Never Trump” movement.

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