The Atlantic: "Will Bernie Sanders Voters Support Hillary Clinton?"

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Note to Jury: This is a verbatim copy of the title and an excerpt of a source we use all the time at DU. This is not the opinion of the op.

Source: The Atlantic is an American magazine, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

Democratic Party power brokers are rallying around Hillary Clinton, calling for unity and a focus on defeating Donald Trump. Are Bernie Sanders supporters willing to do the same?

A Bloomberg article published Wednesday warns that “nearly half of Sanders supporters won’t support Clinton.” It cites a June 14 Bloomberg poll of likely general-election voters, reporting that “barely half of those who favored Sanders—55 percent—plan to vote for Clinton.” The story adds, “22 percent say they’ll vote for Trump, while 18 percent favor Libertarian Gary Johnson.” The report indicates widespread resistance to a Clinton presidency among Sanders supporters, a dynamic that could help the senator as he negotiates the terms of his surrender.

Sanders is technically still in the presidential race. But Clinton has claimed the title of Democratic presumptive nominee, and the senator has acknowledged he doesn’t expect to win. “It doesn’t appear that I’m going to be the nominee,” he said in a C-SPAN interview released on Wednesday. On Thursday evening, Sanders is planning to deliver a speech that will outline his next steps. In recent days, Sanders has turned his attention away from contesting the nomination and toward an effort to shape the Democratic agenda and the future of the party. Whether he can achieve his aims may hinge on how badly Clinton wants to win the support of his voters.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/bernie-or-bust-clinton/488276/