Nearly Half of Sanders Supporters Won't Support Clinton

[TheStruggle]

(Bloomberg) -- In the two weeks since Hillary Clinton wrapped up the Democratic presidential primary, runner-up Bernie Sanders has promised to work hard to defeat Donald Trump — but he’s given no sign he’ll soon embrace Clinton, his party’s presumptive nominee. Neither have many of Sanders’s supporters. A June 14th Bloomberg Politics national poll of likely voters in November’s election found that barely half of those who favored Sanders — 55 percent — plan to vote for Clinton. Instead, 22 percent say they’ll vote for Trump, while 18 percent favor Libertarian Gary Johnson. “I’m a registered Democrat, but I cannot bring myself to vote for another establishment politician like Hillary,” says Laura Armes, a 43-year-old homemaker from Beeville, Texas, who participated in the Bloomberg poll and plans to vote for Trump. “I don’t agree with a lot of what Trump says. But he won’t owe anybody. What you see is what you get.”


If Sanders does endorse Clinton, even some of his staunchest “Never Clinton” supporters could ultimately come around. “I do follow her on Facebook, and I don’t care about her emails,” says Armes, the Beeville, Texas, homemaker planning to vote for Trump. “Ugh, this is so hard. I guess an endorsement would probably sway me.”


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...rs-wont-support-clinton/ar-AAhr1Ye?li=BBnb7Kz

 

[Dolomite]

I'm one of them.

Even if he endorses her: #neverhillary

 

[Diamond Jim]

Sanders supporters who support Trump have to admit that they didn't at all care about the progressive agenda, but only care for old guys who say stupid shit.

 

[TheStruggle]

Sanders supporters who support Trump have to admit that they didn't at all care about the progressive agenda, but only care for old guys who say stupid shit.

Is the progressive agenda more Islam?

 

[Awesomesauce]

Sanders supporters who support Trump have to admit that they didn't at all care about the progressive agenda, but only care for old guys who say stupid shit.

Umm no, there was always a large part of Sanders base that was never going to vote for Hillary because they wanted someone who was a political outsider. Hillary is the definition of a insider candidate.

 

[Diamond Jim]

Umm no, there was always a large part of Sanders base that was never going to vote for Hillary because they wanted someone who was a political outsider. Hillary is the definition of a insider candidate.

And Trump is an outsider how? He's spent his whole career greasing the pockets of politicians.

 

[Diamond Jim]

Is the progressive agenda more Islam?

Yes. And forcing Christian bakers to make cupcakes for transgenders while they use the same bathroom as their wife and children.

We will not be stopped.

 

[K1levelgrappler]

Trump's campaign is such debacle at this point that she probably won't even need them.

 

[TheStruggle]

Yes. And forcing Christian bakers to make cupcakes for transgenders while they use the same bathroom as their wife and children.

We will not be stopped.

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[TheStruggle]

Trump's campaign is such debacle at this point that she probably won't even need them.

That's why a quarter of likely voters are still undecided, because Clinton is knocking it out of the park

 

[eworden78]

I'm probably jumping to Jill Stein.

I think a lot of people who support Trump or Bernie, were more concerned with shaking up either of the two parties, than the specific of policies.
To me, the bigger issues aren't so much the details of anyone's policies.

Hillary represents everything wrong with the Democratic party, and the disaster of a Trump win, in my opinion, may serve as the kind of catharsis progressives and liberals need to move forward.
A learn the hard way lesson, for propping up a bad candidate. I'd rather have a Trump win, than continue rewarding the Democratic party for being a bunch of corrupt panderers.

 

[Trotsky]

If Clinton had merely bested Sanders in usual democratic fashion, there wouldn't be this divide.

Instead, she won on the back of rampant reports of voter suppression and election fraud, at the conclusion of another exceptionally dirty and dishonest campaign (to follow up with her campaign of similar repute against Obama), and with the help of disgustingly biased corporate media conglomerates.

The Democrats made their bed and, barring a major and fairly immediate turn, may have lost a large portion of the solid left for the near future. Sanders endorsing Clinton will do little to change that: as he always said, his movement was never about him. He was just a placeholder at the forefront of a coup.

 

[K1levelgrappler]

That's why a quarter of likely voters are still undecided, because Clinton is knocking it out of the park

Clinton is capitalizing on Trump's incompetence then? Call it what you will, but Hillary is the only one running a functional campaign at the moment.

 

[MicroBrew]

I am one of them.

Never Clinton.

 

[Awesomesauce]

And Trump is an outsider how? He's spent his whole career greasing the pockets of politicians.

Thats absurd, I would vote for Hillary before Trump, but Trump is more outsider to the GOP then Sanders was to the Democrats. Trump has been utterly despised by the GOP leadership from the beginning, hes the candidate and most of them would rather see Hillary win. Hes literally more of an outsider to the GOP then Hillary is to the GOP.

 

[reflector]

I still say the race is way too early to call.

 

[kpt018]

I'd love to see the historical data on the 22% that would vote Trump and 18% for GJ on how they voted in past elections (not sure if it's out there or anyone actually polled that). I'd wager many of them tend to vote Republican and Libertarian....

 

[Awesomesauce]

I'd love to see the historical data on the 22% that would vote Trump and 18% for GJ on how they voted in past elections (not sure if it's out there or anyone actually polled that). I'd wager many of them tend to vote Republican and Libertarian....

I don't think there is any doubt about that. Its why many, myself included, thought Sanders was clearly the better candidate. Sanders would have drawn heavily from the those on the right who despise what the GOP has become. That exact same group will be driven to Trump out of dislike for Hillary.

 

[kpt018]

I don't think there is any doubt about that. Its why many, myself included, thought Sanders was clearly the better candidate. Sanders would have drawn heavily from the those on the right who despise what the GOP has become. That exact same group will be driven to Trump out of dislike for Hillary.

It would also explain why Bernie did better than Hillary against Trump in polling. I'd reserve saying this is definitely the case without data, but it certainly makes sense to me.

It would also show that Hillary really isn't losing ground though.

 

[Awesomesauce]

It would also explain why Bernie did better than Hillary against Trump in polling. I'd reserve saying this is definitely the case without data, but it certainly makes sense to me.

It would also show that Hillary really isn't losing ground though.

I don't think Hillary is losing ground right now, I worry what might happens when the conservative media start pounding on her in the GE, but thats a different story.