Bernie Sanders supporters reluctantly turn to Joe Biden, fueled by their dislike of Donald Trump

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In 2016, 12% of Bernie Sanders supporters backed Donald Trump in the general election. Polls and interviews suggest that number will shrink in 2020.

. The Suffolk poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

“We need good health care. We need good education. He's not going to make that possible,” said Alana Jones, 30, a freelance writer from Marshall, Missouri, said of Biden. “He’s not got an honest bone in his body." Sanders voters generally can be split into two camps: those who said defeating Trump in November is paramount and those who said pushing policy proposals is the top priority.

“I’m having trouble stomaching the thought of voting for Joe Biden as I think many people are," said the engineer from Baltimore who voted for Sanders in 2016 and plans to vote for him again in Maryland's June 2 primary even though Sanders is no longer in the race. five days after Sanders suspended his campaign in April. "I'm going to need you. Not just to win the campaign but to govern."to get behind the former vice president, Paleologos said.

Clancy, the Maryland engineer, said he'd be likelier to vote for Biden if he chose former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democratic senator and liberal champion who vied with Sanders for the progressive vote during the campaign. "Donald Trump is a businessman. He’s very smart," Gonzalez said."Sometimes everybody makes mistakes and he gets in trouble. I’m looking at the good things, what he’s doing for the country."Schaffner, the Tufts University professor, said Biden probably has a better chance to win over Sanders voters Clinton couldn't because he's generally seen as more likable than she was as a candidate.

 

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No. I dislike Biden and Trump. I will vote for someone else. Plain and simple.

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Not this Sanders supporter. GreenParty2020 PeoplesParty MedicareforALL UnitedLeft

No way! 🤮🤮🤔

' among Sanders voters who said policy is more important than beating Trump, only 55% are voting for Biden.' Sanders voters are pretty big on social policy but of the ones who are not () 94% will vote for Biden I question the fundamentals of this poll false sense of security?

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Why Biden must choose Bernie must

Damned well better shrink! I knew of no true Bernie Sanders supporter like myself who voted Trump.

These 12 pct are Jackasses. They put this Devil in White House

Oh yes let’s believe the polls lol

Imagine voting for Biden pretty dumb that would be

People underestimated how much Hillary was hated.

12% backed Trump, while 25% of Clinton supporters voted for McCain. Can we stop using the 12% as a dig against Bernie? His supporters want change and Biden needs to be the one who has to win them over.

One recent poll showed 25% of Bernie's supporters would not vote for Biden, another one showed 20%. Obviously, Biden naming Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to his climate change panel is helping. There are still many radicals left for him to appoint to something and victory is his.

Dear God🙏 Bernie Sanders Voters of America please do not vote for President Trump. You see where we are with him as President it will only get worse if he is elected again.

Lifelong left oriented Dem here - so pissed at Dem leadership I actually thought about voting for that idiot Trump

Trump Campaign and RNC have a record fundraising April $61.7 million and approval ratting the highest it's ever been!

Totally agree with this. I’m an Independent and will be voting for Biden this time around. And for the record, didn’t vote for tRump last time.

yes because theyre sexist

The media is frantic with “conditioning”. If they say it enough, maybe it will come true. Only pretty much no one trusts the media anymore. After 31/2 yrs of “Russian collusion”.....and it was a big fat lie.

And we know how reliable polls are

Lol lol lol! Riiight! Biden supporters treat Bernie bro’s like trash. Constantly berate them, wish death on them & laugh at them for being losers. And there are more Bernie supporters than Biden supporters.

Polls again huh?! Same polls that told Hillary she had it in the bags. 😂🤣

I can't understand that. Is it vitriol?

Denial is the first stage of loss.

you wish.

Most people who are going ahead and voting for Biden will not be tweeting. What your seeing in these replies are the last gasps of a vocal minority.

Bernie supporters will stay at home rather than vote for the dementia ridden Biden.

16% of 2008 Clinton primary supporters voted for McCain. McCain is a far cry from Trump, yes. But this phenomenon is not unique to 2016 and suggests that an alarming percentage of voters base their choice on something other than policy platform.

Liessssss

Well see. SenSanders and realDonaldTrump supporters are pretty much the same. Probably because the 2 of them are also pretty much the same.

Which means Trump will have an even higher % of the votes!!! Trump2020NowMoreThanEver

LOL. Have yet to see a Bernie voter support Biden.

BernieSanders supporters are Americans who will, for the most part, vote for America. Not for Russia.

I decided not to vote.

You can advertise your polls to reflect anything you want. They are as useless as tits on a bull. They NEVER, even come close. And the people that follow them or use them to advertise their cause are as useless as they are. You know where you can stick those polls.

Imagine going from supporting a full blown socialist to supporting a full blown Alzheimer’s patient. Do these people even like America?

Well does it factor in the people who never went back to bernie the first time? Probably not, because ots meant to portray a different narrative. Fake news

They probably won’t vote

Bernie bros that couldn't even vote Bernie

doubtful - polls are like any other data- numbers and polling can be manipulated

Good or bad guy - there is no way Biden can keep the pace!

If true Good. We have a Lying Corrupt Racist Criminal President with BLOOD on his HANDS.

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