A panicked Hillary Clinton is canceling her East Coast plans and rushing back to California in an attempt to prevent anti-Establishment Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders from pulling off a stunning upset in the Golden State.

Clinton had planned on spending two days this week campaigning in New Jersey, but is instead heading west on Thursday for a five-day campaign blitz lasting until next Tuesday, the day of the state’s primary.

A Sanders victory in California would be truly symbolic, the strongest evidence yet that the Democratic base is in full-scale revolt against its party’s Establishment.

The last-minute schedule change comes on the heels of a Public Policy Institute of California poll that showed Clinton and Sanders virtually tied in the state. Sanders has been running an aggressive and grueling campaign in California, holding numerous rallies and campaign stops.

Most presidential candidates “fly in, do a rally and go to Beverly Hills to do a fundraiser, and then they leave,” Democratic operative Garry South said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. Sanders, however, is “campaigning in California like he was running in Iowa,” South said.

The Clinton campaign is of course claiming that her return to the Golden State is “fueled by her commitment to meet directly with as many voters as possible.”

But this claim is belied not only by the hasty and unscheduled nature of that return, but also by the $1 million of TV ad time the campaign’s purchased last week — a stark reversal of the campaign’s pattern of not spending money on ads in the final primary states, as her nomination is effectively mathematically guaranteed.

Despite the practical inevitability of Clinton’s nomination, a Sanders upset in California would be a devastating blow to the Clinton campaign. The state — which has in many ways been a vanguard of progressive politics since the 1960s — holds 475 delegates, making it the crown jewel in any Democrat’s primary campaign.

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“The momentum is with Bernie Sanders,” LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham observed on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning. “There’s a huge dissatisfaction in the base of the [Democratic] party in California with the Establishment wing of the Democratic Party,” she noted.

“I just would not be surprised if he pulled off an upset, which would be terribly damaging to the Clinton campaign,” Ingraham said.

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A Sanders victory in California would be truly symbolic, the strongest evidence yet that the Democratic base is, much like its Republican counterpart, in full-scale revolt against its party’s Establishment.

[lz_table title=”Clinton’s Slipping California Support” source=”RealClear Politics”]May 26 PPIC Poll
Clinton,46%
Sanders,44%
|Aprl 23 Fox News Poll
Clinton,48%
Sanders,46%
|April 17 CBS News Poll
Clinton,52%
Sanders,40%
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Even Barack Obama, the Holy Anointed One of the Progressive Left, couldn’t beat Clinton in California. Indeed, her victory there in 2008 enabled her ultimately doomed campaign to limp on for a few more weeks.

Ingraham also predicted that a weak showing from Clinton in the state’s primary could put the state very much in play during the general election. “It would cement the idea of her weakness and her inability to connect with the regular working-class Democrat in a state as important as California,” Ingraham said.

“And that’s why I would really watch Donald Trump in California,” she continued. “I think [Trump] is going to make a big push for California and I think he’s going to try to pick up some of those Bernie Sanders supporters,” she said. “Even 10 percent would be a big for him, come November.”