US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday her campaign has been in contact with the campaign of rival Bernie Sanders about unifying the Democratic Party.
Unifying the party will be a central challenge once Democrats choose their nominee, with Clinton heavily favoured to win the nomination but facing a protracted battle with Sanders, a US senator from Vermont
In an interview on CNN, Clinton said the contacts are likely to intensify after next week's California primary.
"I will certainly do everything I can to unify the Democratic Party. Our campaigns have been reaching out to one another. We will continue to do that," she said.
She said both she and Sanders "are going to do everything we can" to prevent Republican candidate Donald Trump from winning the November 8 presidential election.
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Clinton also landed the endorsement from California Governor Jerry Brown, patching up a strained relationship between the two Democrats as she seeks to deliver a final blow to Bernie Sanders' campaign.
Clinton heads into California primaries on June 7 needing only 71 delegates to lock up the Democratic nomination.
