Why Did Trump Win 12% Of Bernie Sanders Voters? The Answer’s Obvious To Everyone But Democrats.

According to the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, a huge effort which sampled results from roughly 50,000 voters, roughly 12% of people who voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries, voted for President Trump in the general election.

That news came courtesy of political science professor Brian Schaffner of University of Massachusetts, Amherst, last week:

Schaffner argued that the affinity for Trump among Sanders voters didn’t stem from trade:

Schaffner also stated that open primaries had little to do with the defection of Sanders voters:

So how does a leftist professor like Schaffner explain the defection of his beloved leftists? They weren’t Democrats:

And certainly not devotees of Barack Obama:

So what exactly does Schaffner posit the defection to? When in doubt, where do leftists always turn? To race, naturally:

Yet more voters went from Hillary Clinton to John McCain in 2008 than went from Sanders to Trump in 2016, so possibly it was just the distaste for Hillary Clinton that is the constant here.

It’s as simple as that.