Can Bernie Sanders sell Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget to Trump voters? Here's how he tried in Indiana

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : A poll last month from The Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago found that roughly 40% of Republicans backed free pre-K and 30% supported the concept of free community college.
54% : "Sen. Sanders' hybrid message of socialism and populist ideas tends to resonate in poor economic times, which is not the case here," Hershman said.
50% : At some points, Sanders emphasized the plan did not go as far as he hoped -- it doesn't eliminate all student debt or meet his ultimate goal of a single-payer universal health care system.
45% : At his town hall, Sanders emphasized that Democrats would raise taxes on corporations and the wealthiest Americans while assuring no family making less than $400,000 per year would see a tax increase.
42% : His one exception: taxes on the uber-wealthy billionaires Sanders rails against for paying virtually no federal taxes.
40% : and I have to pay taxes, and these guys are probably making $15 million a day and not paying anything."
35% : "Why do we have to raise taxes on anybody?
31% : Conkright, the Trump voter who attended the Sanders rally, said he would be OK with pre-K and free community college if it was optional and for low-income individuals, but he generally opposes raising taxes, believing it hurts the economy and jobs.
30% : "My Republican colleagues are busy telling everybody, 'Bernie Sanders and Democrats are going to raise taxes.'

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