Independent US Senator Bernie Sanders would have defeated President Donald Trump in the general election had he secured the Democratic nomination last year, according to the pollster for Trump’s election campaign.
Speaking at a Harvard University Institute of Politics event Monday, Tony Fabrizio acknowledged that Sanders could have won the 2016 presidential election, which the final Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, lost to Trump.
“There’s no question that if it had been anybody other than Clinton or anybody other than Trump, that race would not have been as close as it was either way,” Fabrizio said. “It would not have been.”
When asked what could have happened if Trump faced Sanders in the election, Fabrizio replied, “I think Sanders beats Trump.”
“I think Sanders would have had the ability to reach a lot of the less than college-educated, low-income white voters,” he added.
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