Cooper Allen

USA TODAY

Hillary Clinton may still hold a sizable lead over Bernie Sanders in the delegate count, but nationally, Democrats are almost evenly divided between their party's two White House hopefuls, according to a new poll.

A newly released NBC News/Wall Street Journal national poll finds Clinton the favorite of 50% of Democrats, while Sanders is backed by 48%. In the same poll a month ago, Clinton led 53% to 44%. The finding echoes the results of a Fox News poll from late last week that also showed Clinton with a two-point lead.

While the numbers are good news for Sanders, who's also won seven of the past eight state delegate contests, there is no national primary, so the Vermont senator's challenge remains the same: how to cut into Clinton's formidable delegate edge.

Heading into Tuesday's New York primary, where Clinton is favored, the former secretary of State leads Sanders in pledged delegates, 1,289 to 1,045. When superdelegates are included, her lead grows substantially, to 1758 to 1,076, according to the Associated Press.

The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of 339 Democratic primary voters has a margin of error +/- 5.3 percentage points and was conducted April 10 to 14.

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