Policies proposed by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders ahead of his endorsement for Hillary Clinton were so “popular” that would have ultimately gotten him elected the US president, an analyst says.
Sanders supported his party’s nominee after he failed to win the primary round of the 2016 presidential election, out of which Republican candidate Donald Trump finally emerged victor by gaining more electoral votes.
Trump won partly because he “crossed over to Rust Belt states, which are areas of the United States, that have a lot of heavy industry and where mass unemployment and poverty have been generated by neoliberal economics of the kind that Hillary Clinton is actually a champion,” said Keith Preston, the chief editor of AttacktheSystem.com, in a Sunday phone interview with Press TV.
He was commenting on the results of a pre-election poll, which showed that Sanders would have beaten Trump if he had been nominated instead of Clinton by the…