1 In 10 Sanders Primary Voters Ended Up Supporting Trump, Survey Finds
Yes, Bernie Sanders supporters who voted for President Trump could have cost Hillary Clinton the election. But then, about the same share of Republican primary voters defected to Clinton.
by Danielle Kurtzleben
Aug 24, 2017
3 minutes
Fully 12 percent of people who voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries voted for President Trump in the general election. That's according to the data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study — a massive election survey of around 50,000 people. (For perspective, a run-of-the-mill survey measuring Trump's job approval right now has a sample of 800 to 1,500.)
Political science professor Brian Schaffner of University of Massachusetts, Amherst, tweeted out the data on Wednesday.
Schaffner's numbers in the general election, rather than for the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton.
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