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12% of people who voted for Trump in 2016 voted for Sanders in the primary.

1: https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/545812242/1-in-10-sanders-pri...

Thats more than enough of a margin for a definite loss. Image if Trump lost in 2016. His supporters and the whole world wide right wing ecosphere would never had gotten emboldened.\

The article doesn't touch upon it but there was a contagion of two time Obama voters that voted Trump. This group was touched upon in Michael Moores documentary Farenheit 11/9. People like those in Flint, MI who felt abandoned by Obama switched their allegiance to Trump.



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