*"3/4of Bernie Sanders's 2016 voters wouldn't vote for him again if the election were held today"*

[lapucelle]

31. All the data shows is that a number of BS primary voters chose Trump in the general.

Who they would have voted for if BS had made it to the general is sheer speculation. Among the most glaring assumptions is that BS would have continued to get the kid glove treatment from Republican operatives.

So what would have happened when Sanders hit a real opponent, someone who did not care about alienating the young college voters in his base? I have seen the opposition book assembled by Republicans for Sanders, and it was brutal. The Republicans would have torn him apart. And while Sanders supporters might delude themselves into believing that they could have defended him against all of this, there is a name for politicians who play defense all the time: losers.

https://www.newsweek.com/myths-cost-democrats-presidential-election-521044

In addition, WI and MI had open primaries, so determining exactly who voted BS is problematic.

As for PA, I spent weekends for almost two months before the general election traveling to PA to help voters who had been purged from the polls to re-register and to devise voting plans with marginalized voters and the working poor to try to ensure that they were able to get to the polls on election day.

The 2016 general was the first presidential election after the Roberts Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. I saw first hand, sitting at their kitchen tables that for people in some communities, exercising the franchise is a genuinely difficult task.