The most enthusiastic supporters of Trump, when ask they second choice, it tends to be Sanders (And to a degree the opposite is also true). The reason for this is you have a solid group of mostly white males from Working Class (People making around Medium Income of about $50,000 a Year) who see radical change is needed for them to maintain their standard of living. This same group has seen their income drop since Reagan, and have increased they debt level to maintain the same standard of living at lower income, but can no longer borrow money (i.e. they are maxed out). Thus NOT to see a drop in their standard of living, they will support ANYONE who offers a solution to that situation. Right now that is Trump and Sanders. Trump is offering radical right wing solutions to this problem of these Middle Class Whites and protect those parts of the Social Safety net that these men are relying on (Trump is the only GOP Candidate who supports Medicare and Social Security for example, the rest want to "Privatize" both)_
This is the monster the GOP right wing is facing, a right winger who supports Social Security (Which the big money on the right want to privatize) whose main source of votes, will vote for Sanders if Trump is NOT on the ballot. The reason for this is Sanders also supports those same Social Programs that the white Working class rely on (something those same white working class men question when it comes to Hillary). If Trump is defeated early, many of his voters will switch to Sanders, giving even more votes for Sanders in critical primary states where voters can switch parties at the polls.
The right KNOWS the above and does NOT know had to address it. Trump is right wing on all the Social Issues that the GOP has claimed for over 50 years, but is left wing on the social safety net, something the right wing MONEY groups have opposed and undercut the last 50 years but dare NOT come out and say they want them abolished. Trump is a big month Eisenhower Republican, to only be tolerated by the right wing economic republicans to get votes for other Republicans (who oppose Social Programs) but NOT to take Control of the GOP itself and get his program through.
A secondary factor is Trump is a big month, but is known to make deals as oppose to fighting opposition to the death. i.e Trump will work with Democrats to get thing passed even if that means rejecting the economic right wingers of the GOP.
The voters seem to sense this and thus support Trump, and many of those same voters is Trump is NOT on the Ballot, will vote for Sanders, for Sanders, like Trump, supports the safety net, something the working class white males depend on and they do NOT trust the other candidates to protect. The Economic Right Wingers would prefer Cruz vs Hilary, for both have in the past supported "Reforms" of Social Security including privatization. In such an election, the working class will have to pick someone who has in the past done acts that undermined the social safety net, a choose the economic right wingers want Americans to have. The Economic Right wingers do NOT want anyone on the ballot from the Major Parties that support Social Security reforms that leads to increase taxes on the rich.
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