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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A 33-foot inflatable “Trump Chicken” made another appearance in the Bay Area, this time sailing around the San Francisco shore dressed in prison garb on Sunday. The massive chicken, wearing a “Prisoner 45” striped shirt, was inflated at Crissy Field and then made for Fisherman’s Wharf, according to The Trump Chicken website. The gold-crested chicken was set to sail past the Ferry Building about 1:30 p.m., moving slowly along The Embarcadero, heading toward McCovey Cove.

Donald J. Trump and his allies are engaged in an aggressive effort to undermine the Republican nominating process by framing it as rigged and corrupt, hoping to compensate for organizational deficiencies that have left Mr. Trump with an increasingly precarious path to the nomination. Their message: The election is being stolen from him. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump berated the politicians he said were trying to stop his nomination and denounced the Republican Party, which he cast as complicit in the theft. “Our Republican system is absolutely rigged. It’s a phony deal,” he said, accusing party leaders of maneuvering to cut...