Will Bernie voters vote for Biden when he wins?🙄

[Hortensis]

16. Democrats will vote Democrat. Sanders zealots will behave the same.

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Remembering, Sanders himself was strangely enraged after Hillary was nominated, bizarrely considering even reluctant observers had to accept she'd won months before. But his rage was seemingly exceeded by that of his zealots, many of whom called for everyone to leave the Democratic Party and did so themselves. Many of them were notably enraged at Sanders for even a long-delayed, reluctant pro forma endorsement they knew he didn't mean. But they're with him again for now.

Regarding other influences, on election day 2016 his wife tweeted to the nation that it didn't matter who people voted for as long as they voted. This with Trump as the alternative and congress and many states at stake.

At the same time, some of his top staff were recommending voting third party, passionately calling for "Demexit," and later confirmed they'd done one or both themselves. I don't think any admitted voting for Trump; but judging by nearly half of Sanders' most zealous, Sanders-or-"Die, Demorats" followers, I think it's reasonable to suspect some in the Sanders campaign did. He still has many of the same staff, or replacements of the same sort, out stumping and tweeting.

And fwiw, Sanders has said he never voted, all through the Civil Rights era even, not even for the establishment of the Medicare he's making such hay with now, until he finally voted for the first time for himself. Apparently the only candidate on any ballot in any decade that met his standards to that point was him, and he won't be on the 2020 GE ballot. That at least wasn't reflected in his 2016 zealots; only 2% refused to vote at all -- they're a passionate bunch of Trump electors.

So they're basically the same people, which is why I believe they'll all do the same next time according to their individual natures. Noting that 3/4 of Sanders' 2016 primary voters always intended to vote for Hillary in the GE and did and that 24% always intended to refuse to and did.