LOS ANGELES — Hillary Clinton is looking confidently ahead to the general election, but taking nothing for granted as California’s mega-primary approaches, reaching out to Hispanic and black voters in the hope of waging a final knockout against rival Bernie Sanders.

Clinton’s visit to the Golden State today coincides with Cinco de Mayo, the annual celebration of Mexican culture and heritage. She plans to rally supporters in the gymnasium of a community college that serves heavily Hispanic cities on the edge of Los Angeles.

The event will carry symbolic value. The venue, East Los Angeles College, isn’t far from another local school where Clinton kicked off her successful 2008 presidential primary run in California, when she delivered a setback to then-Sen. Barack Obama on his way to claiming the White House.

In that race, the former first lady notched nearly 55 percent of the vote in heavily Democratic Los Angeles County, home to 10 million people and an important battleground in any statewide campaign.

As in past primaries, Clinton is expected to do well in the June 7 primary with older Democrats, Hispanics and black voters, while Sanders could perform better with younger voters and independents, who are allowed to vote in the state’s Democratic primary.

“The Sanders folks feel that they have to do better with the minority communities, especially Latinos,” said Mitchell Schwartz, who ran Obama’s 2008 campaign in the state and supports the Vermont senator.

For Clinton’s campaign, “they don’t want to go into the (national) convention having lost the biggest state in the country,” Schwartz added. “They are going to pull out all the stops here to win.”