In 2016, 12% of Bernie Sanders supporters backed Donald Trump in the general election. Polls and interviews suggest that number will shrink in 2020.
. The Suffolk poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
“We need good health care. We need good education. He's not going to make that possible,” said Alana Jones, 30, a freelance writer from Marshall, Missouri, said of Biden. “He’s not got an honest bone in his body." Sanders voters generally can be split into two camps: those who said defeating Trump in November is paramount and those who said pushing policy proposals is the top priority.
“I’m having trouble stomaching the thought of voting for Joe Biden as I think many people are," said the engineer from Baltimore who voted for Sanders in 2016 and plans to vote for him again in Maryland's June 2 primary even though Sanders is no longer in the race. five days after Sanders suspended his campaign in April. "I'm going to need you. Not just to win the campaign but to govern."to get behind the former vice president, Paleologos said.
Clancy, the Maryland engineer, said he'd be likelier to vote for Biden if he chose former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democratic senator and liberal champion who vied with Sanders for the progressive vote during the campaign. "Donald Trump is a businessman. He’s very smart," Gonzalez said."Sometimes everybody makes mistakes and he gets in trouble. I’m looking at the good things, what he’s doing for the country."Schaffner, the Tufts University professor, said Biden probably has a better chance to win over Sanders voters Clinton couldn't because he's generally seen as more likable than she was as a candidate.
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