Most Democrats don't want Sanders to drop out, poll finds

Democrats want Bernie to stay in the race.

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published 20 May 2016

Counting super delegates, Hillary Clinton is fewer than 100 delegates away from clinching the Democratic nomination — but her party isn't ready to see Bernie Sanders exit the race quite yet.

Some 70 percent of Democrats say that the "continuing campaign for the Democratic nomination" is not hurting their party, according to Gallup poll results released Friday.

Perhaps surprisingly, slightly more self-identified Clinton supporters (74 percent) than Sanders supporters (69 percent) are happy to have the contest continue. An average of 25 percent of Democrats disagreed.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.