{"id":24166,"date":"2016-05-23T05:30:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T09:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=24166"},"modified":"2016-05-22T19:06:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T23:06:32","slug":"sanders-voters-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2016\/05\/sanders-voters-for-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders voters for Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Many supporters of Bernie Sanders do not like Hillary Clinton and are vowing that they will never vote for her. \u00a0The more affluent of his supporters could always vote with the Green Party, though most will settle for Clinton after all. \u00a0But what about the white working class voters who are victims of the current economy and who have been giving Sanders his big wins in industrial rust belt states?<\/p>\n

They may well have common cause with Donald Trump, who also does well with this demographic and who advocates some of Sanders\u2019 policies. \u00a0Might some of those disaffected blue collar Democrats vote for Trump? \u00a0And might that\u00a0turn some Blue states Red and give Trump the victory? \u00a0Charles Krauthammer thinks it\u2019s a possibility.<\/p>\n

From Charles Krauthammer,\u00a0\u00a0Donald Trump \u2014 Hillary Clinton Should Beware the Bernie Sanders Factor | National Review<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Donald Trump is, like Sanders, running to the left of Clinton on a host of major issues including trade, Wall Street, NATO, and interventionism. It turns out that the ultimate general-election question is not where Cruz or Rubio or Kasich supporters are going \u2014 almost all seem to be making their tortuous way to Trump \u2014 but where do Bernie Sanders\u2019s supporters go?<\/p>\n

Most will, of course, go to Hillary. Some will stay home. But Trump is making a not-so-subtle pitch to those Democrats and independents who gave Sanders his victories in the industrial Midwest.<\/p>\n

The Trump and Sanders constituencies share one stark characteristic: They are both overwhelmingly white. In the Rust Belt, the appeal is to middle- and working-class voters who have suffered economic and social dislocation. The question is whether Trump can win a sufficient number of those voters, erstwhile Reagan Democrats, to flip just a few states that, like Michigan and Pennsylvania, have gone Democratic for the last six elections. . . .<\/p>\n

That, after all, is Trump\u2019s path to victory: Add a few industrial blue states to the traditional must-win swing states \u2014 Ohio and Florida, most obviously \u2014 and pull off an Electoral College win.
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