By the Numbers: How Sanders Hardcore Loyalists Helped Elect Donald Trump Bigly

Gayle Leslie
8 min readJan 7, 2020

Totally by the numbers: so maybe we don’t do that again.

Bernie Sanders (STEPHEN MATUREN/GETTY IMAGES)

So I’ve had more and more Bernie Sanders’ supporters ask me recently, when confronted by the basic fact that the choices of the candidate’s supporters in the last election — after he lost the nomination — played significantly in electing Donald Trump, just how that can be?

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