Bernie Sanders voters helped Trump become President

[karynnj]

151. You are making assumptions

I would argue that part of the reason that Sanders ended up with about 45% of the delegates rather than the 5 to 10 percent that most would have thought his maximum likely number was because for many they were not fiercely for HRC, they were at best resigned.

In addition, you ignore that Sanders support included some loyal Democrats, some swing voters and even a fewRepublicans w libertarians who had never voted for a Democrat. It was the latter two groups that split between HRC and Trump. Even if Bernie never ran, it is not clear that they would have voted differently in the general election. I would bet there were more in that group who were influenced by Bernie to cast a vote for HRC that they otherwise would not have cast than people who voted for Trump, who would have voted for Clinton had there been no primary challenge. (look at the charts upthread - the Bernie and then Trump voters had a very low approval rating for Obama - these were Republicans who Bernie had won over. )