Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Campaign 2016

While a few die-hard Sanders supporters have vowed that it’s “Bernie or bust,” a Quinnipiac University poll from late May found that three-quarters of Sanders supporters would vote for Mrs. Clinton if it came down to a Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton race in November. Alex Sheehan, 29, an digital media entrepreneur in New York, said he thought that when faced with the prospect of a Trump presidency, most Sanders supporters would end up voting for Mrs. Clinton — and “If not, we deserve the catastrophic failure that follows,” he said.
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"This is a movement,” [Minnie Wong] said. “It is not about Bernie Sanders. He’s a part of this movement.” And, according to Mr. Sanders’s most ardent supporters, that movement isn’t going anywhere.
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“It’s getting people to understand that this is more than just casting your ballot every four years or every two years,” Ms. Changa said. “It’s not about the presidential election. It’s whether we’re participating in mayoral elections, city councils, statehouses.”