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Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont spoke at a rally in Stockton, Calif., on Tuesday.

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With West Virginia Victory, the Beat Goes On for Bernie Sanders

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

Good Wednesday morning.

The delegate math remains tough, but for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the revolution lives on for another day.

Mr. Sanders won the West Virginia primary on Tuesday night, a decisive win over Hillary Clinton in a state where the coal mining industry has been hampered by President Obama’s environmental policies. Donald J. Trump also won in the state, as well as in Nebraska, although his two remaining rivals left the race last week.

Mrs. Clinton won West Virginia over Mr. Obama in 2008. And Mr. Obama received a primary challenge there in 2012 from a Texas felon who won some counties there. The politics of the state have been hard to cleave away from racial lines.

But Mrs. Clinton struggled in the state, not just because of her alliance with Mr. Obama, but also because of her missteps in discussing the coal industry. A comment, lifted out of context but clunky nonetheless, about the coal industry and people being put out of business followed her there, and she faced protests from coal workers during campaign stops.

Primaries are not necessarily bellwethers for how candidates will fare in a general election. But Mrs. Clinton will have work to do with white working-class voters in the fall in battlegrounds like Pennsylvania.

And so Mr. Sanders’s candidacy continues, a fact that has exasperated some of Mrs. Clinton’s supporters, particularly as Mr. Trump has sewn up his race weeks before people expected him to. But if there is a silver lining for Mrs. Clinton, it is that Mr. Sanders’s lingering presence gives her cover to settle on an effective course against Mr. Trump, something her team does not yet seem to have done.

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What We’re Watching Today

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Mrs. Clinton will hold organizing events in New Jersey, and Mr. Sanders will host rallies in Montana. Both states vote on June 7.

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Mr. Trump, who has no real need to campaign for the remaining Republican contests, has no public events scheduled.

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Bernie Sanders Wins West Virginia, Prolonging Race With Hillary Clinton

By TRIP GABRIEL

The primary victory by the senator from Vermont will force his Democratic rival to continue a distracting nominating fight.

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Both Disliked, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Accentuate the Negatives

By TRIP GABRIEL

Each candidate hopes to exploit the weaknesses of an unpopular opponent in a race that promises to center on personality and temperament more than issues.

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Hillary Clinton Takes a Step to the Left on Health Care

By ALAN RAPPEPORT AND MARGOT SANGER-KATZ

Mrs. Clinton, taking a step in Bernie Sanders’s direction, came out this week in favor of “the public option,” or allowing people to buy into Medicare.

Max Whittaker/Reuters

Bernie Sanders Wins West Virginia, Prolonging Race With Hillary Clinton

By TRIP GABRIEL

The primary victory by the senator from Vermont will force his Democratic rival to continue a distracting nominating fight.

Hillary, Donald and Bernie Don’t Catch On as Baby Names

By JEREMY B. MERRILL

Fewer babies born in 2015 share a name with candidates than they have in previous decades, suggesting few parents are inspired enough to name their offspring Hillary, Donald or Bernie.

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Ted Cruz Declines to Support Donald Trump, and Muses About Re-entering Race

By MATT FLEGENHEIMER

In his first interview since leaving the Republican presidential race last week, Mr. Cruz declined to throw his support behind Mr. Trump, suggesting that he and other conservatives had plenty of time to assess their options.

House Is Set to Vote on 18 Bills to Address Opioid Addiction

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

House Republicans have scheduled votes this week on bills that include measures to make it easier for doctors to treat patients addicted to opioids, and to offer greater protections for veterans and for children affected by the opioid epidemic.

Stay tuned throughout the day: Follow us on Twitter @NYTPolitics and on Facebook for First Draft updates.

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The 2016 Race

Voters’ Fears About Trump May Outweigh Wish for Change

By BRENDAN NYHAN

Typically, the party that has not held the White House for two or more terms gets a small advantage, just from that. But this year is not typical.

Eric Thayer for The New York Times

The 2016 Race

No, the Battleground States Are Not a Terrific Fit for Donald Trump

By NATE COHN AND TONI MONKOVIC

A quick analysis of each of the swing states shows the challenges he faces, including a Midwest that might not be as inviting as he thinks.

Patrick Semansky/Associated Press

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Hillary Clinton Backs Income Limits on Parents’ Costs for Child Care

By THOMAS KAPLAN

Appealing to working parents buckling under financial pressure, Mrs. Clinton said that families should not have to pay more than 10 percent of their income on child care.

Jae C. Hong/Associated Press

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Donald Trump Has Another Brush With a White Nationalist

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

Mr. Trump’s campaign aides said that because of a technical glitch, a well-known white nationalist leader was included on a list of California delegates that they submitted to the secretary of state’s office.

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The Quinnipiac University surveys show Mrs. Clinton leading Mr. Trump by one percentage point in Pennsylvania and Florida and trailing him by four points in Ohio.

Obama to Be First Sitting President to Visit Hiroshima

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Unless the presumptive nominee can attract more rank-and-file Republican voters, he will have a hard time becoming competitive in a general election.

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Merrick Garland Completes Nominee Questionnaire for the Senate

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The questionnaire, traditionally a requirement for a Supreme Court nominee, was another attempt by Democrats to force Republicans to hold a confirmation hearing for Judge Garland.

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What We’re Reading Elsewhere

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The Wall Street Journal writes that a “less-noticed group” of down-ballot Republican candidates has embraced Mr. Trump’s “blunt talk, nationalist message,” while in an editorial for The Journal, Bret Stephens argues that Mrs. Clinton is preferable to Mr. Trump because the Republican Party “can survive liberal presidents. Trump will kill its best ideas for a generation.”

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NBC News says that Mr. Trump’s enormous vote totals during the primary so far suggest that he “didn’t win the party over so much as his supporters overran the primary process” and that he essentially “won by remaking the Republican primary electorate itself.”

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NPR asks whether it is too late for anti-Trump forces to run a third-party candidacy.

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