15% of Bernie Sanders' supporters would vote for Donald Trump if Joe Biden secures the Democratic presidential nomination, a new poll finds.
If former Vice President Joe BIden secures the Democratic presidential nomination, 15% of Sen. Bernie Sanders' supporters will vote for President Donald Trump's re-election, according to anIf accurate, that would represent a slightly larger defection than occurred after the bitter battle between Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016, when 12% of Sanders voters broke for Trump in the general election.
In a hypothetical general election matchup, Biden narrowly topped Trump by 2 points , which is well within the poll's 3.5-percentage-point margin of error. That signals a dramatic tightening of the race from October, when an ABC/Post poll found the former vice president with a 17-point lead over Trump among registered voters.Trump held a solid advantage over Biden in voter enthusiasm.
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