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4. 15% of Sanders supporters will vote for Trump if Biden is nominee; 80% would back Biden
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 09:54 AM
Mar 2020
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/03/29/bernie-sanders-supporters-vote-trump-over-biden-poll/2936124001/

If former Vice President Joe Biden secures the Democratic presidential nomination, 15% of Sen. Bernie Sanders' supporters will vote for President Donald Trump's reelection, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll. If accurate, that would represent a slightly larger defection than occurred after the bitter battle between Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016, when 12% of Sanders voters broke for Trump in the general election.The good news for Biden is that in spring 2016, an ABC News poll found 20% of Sanders supporters said they would vote for Trump over Clinton, and far fewer ended up doing so. And 80% of Sanders' supporters said they would back Biden over Trump, according to the poll.

The 15% who said they plan to vote for Trump represents just 6% of Democrats and voters who lean Democratic, according to ABC News. Trump won 8% of Democrats in 2016. Biden holds a more than 300-delegate lead over Sanders, who has said he intends to continue his fight for the nomination despite the tough odds of overcoming Biden's lead. The ABC/Post poll found Biden with a 16-percentage-point advantage (55%-39%) over Sanders among registered Democrats and independents who lean Democratic.

In a hypothetical general election matchup, Biden narrowly topped Trump by 2 points (49%-47%), which is well within the poll's 3.5-percentage-point margin of error. That signals a dramatic tightening of the race from October, when an ABC/Post poll found the former vice president with a 17-point lead over Trump among registered voters.

Supporter enthusiasm for Biden is lower than Trump

Trump held a solid advantage over Biden in voter enthusiasm. Fifty-three percent of Trump's backers said they would be "very enthusiastic" to cast their votes for him, while 24% of Biden's supporters said the same for their candidate. That is the lowest for any Democratic presidential candidate in 20 years in an ABC/Post poll. Among Sanders supporters who said they back Biden in November, just 9% said they were very enthusiastic about doing so. The president also held an edge over Biden when it came to the economy, where 57% said they approved of Trump's performance. When asked who they would trust more to handle economic matters, 50% said Trump and 42% said Biden.

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If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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15% will vote for Trump. [View all] bluedye33139 Mar 2020 OP
This, Sir, Is The Weapon Backing 'Bernie's' Blackmail Threats The Magistrate Mar 2020 #1
Yes, Sanders didn't create his insurgent types, and many Hortensis Mar 2020 #10
Please, whose number is this, and how was it formulated? Magoo48 Mar 2020 #2
ABC News poll TwilightZone Mar 2020 #3
Thank You Magoo48 Mar 2020 #9
By Now, Sir, Swelling That Number Is The Sole Point Of 'Bernie's' Campaign The Magistrate Mar 2020 #5
15% of Sanders supporters will vote for Trump if Biden is nominee; 80% would back Biden Celerity Mar 2020 #4
Well, the world is pretty much destroyed right now. Yavin4 Mar 2020 #6
re: "his leadership and his campaign organizers almost exclusively come from that 15%." thesquanderer Mar 2020 #7
This is the fault of Russian propaganda rockfordfile Mar 2020 #8
It's the fault of Sanders' bashing of the Democratic Party. TwilightZone Mar 2020 #11
Exactly, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2020 #12
Interestingly, a similar proportion of aggressive hostiles exhibiting the same Hortensis Mar 2020 #13
Yeah, 2008 was an ugly primary bluedye33139 Mar 2020 #15
:) I was fine with Hillary as were all her other genuine supporters. Hortensis Mar 2020 #16
She's too polarizing though Polybius Mar 2020 #17
She should get bashed. Who you hang with and what Hortensis Mar 2020 #18
I'm not saying I'd vote for her in a future primary Polybius Mar 2020 #19
Sure. I'd like to have her talent working for the party. Hortensis Mar 2020 #20
The motives of a minority of "Bernie Bros" were always more "burn it down" than "re-build America" LVZ Mar 2020 #14
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