Despite pressure from party
establishment on Sanders to drop out of the race, most Democratic voters want
the senator to keep running
A new poll
released Wednesday found that a majority of registered Democrats want
presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders to stay in the race.
The national survey of 2,001
voters by Morning Consult found that 57 percent of all Democrats polled want
Sanders to keep running, while 33 percent want him to drop out. Ten percent
have no opinion.
The findings contradict the
pressure from prominent
Democratic politicians and centrist
pundits on
Sanders to drop out of the presidential race—some of whom even argue that he's
already lost—despite the fact that several states (including delegate-rich
California) and U.S. territories have yet
to hold their primaries. (Polls also show Sanders and Clinton in a dead
heat in California, which votes on June 7.)
The survey also found that a
greater share of women registered as Democrats want Sanders to stay in the race
than do Democratic men, directly contradicting another popular media narrative
that posits
that Sanders' support comes largely from men, while rival Hillary Clinton
supposedly wins more support from women.
Fifty-seven percent of voters
of all political stripes also told the pollsters that they want Sanders to stay
in the race, while 28 percent think he should drop out. A whopping 64 percent
of respondents under 25 believe Sanders should keep running, in keeping with Sanders'
popularity with young people.
The poll found Democratic
voters preferring Clinton over Sanders by a slim margin of four points. The
survey had a two-point margin of error.
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