Morning Consult national poll: Sanders 42% Trump 36%; Generic Dem 44% Trump 35%

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I have reservations about Sanders.  I fear he'd get clobbered in a national electorate about being a socialist.

Nobody cares in real life. By 2020, Millennials will be the largest generational voting Bloc and they don't remember anything about the red menace

Yeah I'm a millennial and Bernie Sanders is probably the only democrat that I'd actually make sure I come out on Election Day and vote for Trump. Bernie Sanders is like America's Joseph Stalin and as Clinton did with Trump voters.... I would take half of Bernie Sanders Supporters and put them into a basket of anti American scumbags and the other half as people I should feel bad for because they're such losers that they still live in their mommy's basement and the "Bernie bros" can't get Laid because girls don't like beta males.

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"Generic" always polls better than any actual person.

"Generic" is the ultimate hero who has no baggage or disapproval of any candidate & magically takes tremendous margins. Would be especially handy against someone as unpopular as Trump.

Anyways Other Data -

Male - Trump +5
Female - Sanders +15
18-29 - Sanders +23
Dems - Sanders +61
Ind - Sanders+9
GOP -  Trump +57

Whites - Trump +3
African American - Sanders +53
Hispanic - +24

On Issues - Sanders has a wide lead in Healthcare, Education, Medicare/SS, Trump on Security, Economy is 50/50 odd. 18% of Hillary Clinton 2016 Voters are in Don't know while Bernie gets 76% of the Clinton 2016 vote.

How on earth does Trump have as much support from the GOP as Bernie has from the Democrats?

Biden for example is much ahead among Democrats vs Bernie which is boosting his numbers.

"How on earth does Trump have as much supportfron the GOP as Bernie does from Democrats?"

Uh, that's the wrong way of looking at it. Trump is an incumbent President and it should be automatically a given that he has 90% of his party locked behind him solely because of that. Also, some Clinton-fan Democrats don't like Sanders, so it's understandable why there'd be a sizable number of holdouts there,  though I'm sure they'd vote for him in the end.

I'm still dying from laughter that Sanders is beating Trump among the wealthy. Trump is just that bad.

Because he's an evil sick old deranged sub human man who has a crush on the Castro bros.