How Some Voters Moved From Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : And they get recognition from the Joe Rogans of the world, they get recognition from Trump, they get recognition from Bernie Sanders."
75% : "Trump has been the best president for union workers we had in ages.
66% : Medicare for all, abortion rights and taxes on the rich, for example, are all liberal policies that Mr. Sanders supports and that Mr. Trump doesn't.
52% : "Tim Chapman is the president of Advancing American Freedom, a political advocacy group started by former Vice President Mike Pence that hews to traditional Republican priorities of limited government and free markets.
50% : "I'm a union man, so making things American-made is huge, and this is Bernie and Trump," he said.
47% : But in other areas, like their opposition to free trade and to intervention in foreign conflicts, they sound similar.
44% : "Trump obviously didn't start life as a regular person, he was wealthy from the start, but everything I heard him say, he got the sense of what it's like to be an average person a lot more," he said.
18% : "The connective tissue from Trump to Sanders is something akin to populism -- the ruling class sucks -- and that rhetoric plays well among a certain class of people who don't feel the government works for them," said Joshua Dyck, a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

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