The Bernie Sanders campaign acknowledges that a large portion of their supporters like Donald Trump

[Cali_Democrat]

How does a "progressive" go from supporting Bernie to supporting a bigot like Trump?

Anyone care to explain that leap?

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Bernie Sanders' campaign manager acknowledged Wednesday that the Democratic candidate's team must keep its supporters from voting for Donald Trump in the general election, even as a spate of recent polls and exit poll data suggested that the Vermont senator's backers could bolt for the Trump train if Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee.

"We're going to have to reach out to voters to keep them from voting for Trump," Jeff Weaver said in an interview with CNN, after it was pointed out that an exit poll of West Virginia Democrats voting for Sanders showed that 43 percent would support Trump against Clinton, while 27 percent would vote for the former secretary of state and 28 percent said neither.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/bernie-sanders-no-trump-vote-223063

[NurseJackie]

1. I suspect it's not the issues that they're concerned about.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Yeah. I'm thinking that's a bit of tortured logic reserved for DU.

[azurnoir]

3. more speculative crapola from wait for it....Politico

quelle surprise

[msongs]

4. weaver is sanders' campaign manager not an employee of politico nt

[azurnoir]

6. ah ya but the headline is a bit misleading there's if's, and's , & but's in there

[CanadaexPat]

5. Trump is an outsider who started off with

a populist economic argument and is anti- interventionist. That's where they overlap a bit.