Donald Trump Hopes for Boost From Bernie Sanders Supporters

[TomCADem]

Another story about how much of Bernie's support is not due to his policies, but due to the fact that he represents a means of expressing anger at the establishment. If he is not the nominee, many of his supporters will switch to Trump, which make sense since many of his supporters are independents, rather than Democrats.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-hopes-for-boost-from-bernie-sanders-supporters-1464600601

“I’m hearing we’re going to get close to 40% of his supporters,” Mr. Trump said at a recent campaign rally in Albuquerque, N.M. “The system is rigged against Bernie, so he can’t win” in the Democratic presidential primary. “We’re going to get tremendous numbers from Bernie Sanders.”

But making that prediction come true would require an extraordinary amount of persuasion, if recent opinion polls and interviews with Sanders backers are any indication.

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The Trump message may fall on more receptive ears among Sanders supporters whose antipathy toward Mrs. Clinton runs especially deep. Jordan Honeycutt, 24, an unemployed laborer in Kannapolis, N.C., said he would reluctantly pull the lever for Mr. Trump if he is the only alternative to Mrs. Clinton.

“Anything but Clinton,” Mr. Honeycutt said. “There isn’t anything about Trump I like much, and I’m scared he will bankrupt the country as he did his businesses. But I would be on that bandwagon. I do believe if Trump becomes president, I do think you will see more jobs opening up. He is a businessman.”

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. He won't get a a boost from anyone I know, and that includes me.

The thought that I could vote for such a monster is nauseating.

[oldandhappy]

2. Not gonna happen

zowie. I'd laugh but it is too sad.

[OilemFirchen]

3. Anyone who votes for Trump is a fucking idiot.

Period.

[AgingAmerican]

4. He will get a boost from many Republicans and indies who would otherwise vote for Sanders

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Mr. Trump makes a lot of claims and few of them are based on fact.

I doubt very much that 40% of Sanders' supporters will switch to Trump.

[KansDem]

6. If I'm not voting for Hillary "More of the Same" Clinton...

I'm sure as hell not voting for Donald "Fucking More of the Same and Then Some" Trump!!

[mucifer]

7. trump lies. This is just another lie. Bernie supporters

do not support his right wing policy ideas. He may say a few anti war things from time to time. Then he says he wants to bomb the crap out of everyone.

I don't know any Bernie supporter who is switching to trump when Bernie doesn't get the nomination.

[LonePirate]

8. If DU is any gauge, that could happen.

Plenty of Libertarians and Republicans pretending to be Bernie supporters around here.