Roughly 12% of Bernie primary voters voted for Trump in the general.
Makes sense though, Bernie did leagues better in conservative states than Hillary. Most people think Bernie was only relevant in super progressive states, when in reality Clinton won nearly every progressive state and Bernie outcompeted her in traditionally red areas.
Which is why a lot of political strategists believe that Bernie would have been able to beat Trump. People wanted a populist leader, when Bernie got kicked off the platform they sided with trump.
I agree with this. I don’t think that everyone people burned necessarily voted for trump but, I don’t think it translated to a vote for Hilary in the way the party expected it would. I know more than a handful of people who when Bernie lost the primary just lost all ambition to vote in that election cycle at all. It’s self destructive behavior sure but, it doesn’t change that it happened.
That’s a bullshit myth from Democrats because they couldn’t believe they lost to Trump.
Roughly 12% of Bernie primary voters voted for Trump in the general.
That’s right in line with the amount of Clinton primary voters in 08 that voted McCain.
And it’s a good bit fewer than the 14% of people that voted for Obama in 2012 that voted Trump in 2016.
Makes sense though, Bernie did leagues better in conservative states than Hillary. Most people think Bernie was only relevant in super progressive states, when in reality Clinton won nearly every progressive state and Bernie outcompeted her in traditionally red areas.
Which is why a lot of political strategists believe that Bernie would have been able to beat Trump. People wanted a populist leader, when Bernie got kicked off the platform they sided with trump.
I agree with this. I don’t think that everyone people burned necessarily voted for trump but, I don’t think it translated to a vote for Hilary in the way the party expected it would. I know more than a handful of people who when Bernie lost the primary just lost all ambition to vote in that election cycle at all. It’s self destructive behavior sure but, it doesn’t change that it happened.