Sanders Supporters Could Threaten Democratic Winning in General Election

Lubna Qadri
Presidential Debates
2 min readMar 29, 2016

Saturday night brought triumph moments for Bernie Sanders who defeated his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington caucuses. Sanders’ winning margin is surprisingly high in these three white dominating states that prevailed Sanders’ optimism to win the nomination.

We knew things were going to improve as we headed West,” Sanders said at a jubilant rally before 8,000 people in Madison, Wisconsin — a state that will hold the next major contest in 10 days. We have a path toward victory

Vermont senator has become more confidant and enthusiastic for his presidential nomination after this tremendous victory, but the fact is he is not close enough to reach that winning position. Clinton still holds a strong position and keeping a majority of delegates by her side. Sanders’ campaign including on social media websites, Facebook, Twitter, and many others have been creating a negative image of Clinton and interestingly, Sanders supporters, not all but majority, more oppose Clinton’s winning in general election than Democratic candidates. Most supporters say they don’t vote for Clinton, if she will be Democratic nominee.

After Bernie Sanders’ recent victory in Michigan, it’s clear that anything can still happen in the Democratic primary. However, if former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton does secure the nomination, a new poll suggests that Sanders supporters may not fall in line behind her

Although, Hillary Clinton email controversy has not been washed out yet and a new investigation is underway by FBI, she potentially has more chances to win the nomination than Sanders. Even there, where Sanders won over 86% of the vote, several of the superdelegates still opted to thwart the will of their state and pledge for Clinton. So if the prognostications indicate Clinton’s nomination, Sanders’ supporters would rather go for Trump against Clinton.

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