Most Republicans don't expect a significant number of Bernie Sanders supporters to vote for Trump. But Trump’s allies have been encouraged by Joe Biden’s difficulties with younger voters, and they believe they can win over some Sanders supporters
Donald Trump has suggested that the Democratic establishment stole the primary from Bernie Sanders, that Barack Obama doesn't really support Joe Biden and that progressives would be crazy to vote for Biden in any case.
Another possible complication: Rep. Justin Amash, a Michigan independent who left the Republican Party last year, is considering running for president. Even if he had a marginal effect on the results, the presence of a third-party candidate with his background might be enough to affect the outcome — much the same as the Green Party’s Jill Stein is thought to have affected the results in several key states in 2016.
The president’s tweets and public statements are just one aspect of the effort to foment Democratic unrest. His campaign ran ads on Facebook inviting Sanders supporters “feeling berned” to instead “join the winning team.” GOP allies have long been pitching narratives about divisions within the Democratic Party to left-leaning media outlets.
While the vast majority of Sanders supporters say they will back Biden in November, a Morning Consult poll last week showed 7 percent of them planned to vote instead for Trump.
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