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# Voters Speak: Sanders Would Trounce Trump in General Election
December 23 2015
Written by Nadia Prupis.
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POLITICS--If the 2016 U.S. presidential election were held today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would win by a landslide over GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, according to a [new poll](http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2311) just released by Quinnipiac University.
With voters favoring Sanders over Trump 51 to 38 percent, Sanders would win the general election by 13 points—more than any other candidate would get squaring off with the Republican favorite, including Sanders' chief rival for the Democratic nomination, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Indeed, while Clinton would likewise sail to victory over Trump, her lead would be approximately half as much, with voters favoring her 47 to 40 percent.
Columnist Brent Budowsky [writes](http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/264023-in-blockbuster-poll-sanders-destroys-trump-by-13) for *The Hill*:
*If this margin held in a general election, Democrats would almost certainly regain control of the United States Senate and very possibly the House of Representatives.*
*It is high time and long overdue for television networks such as CNN to end their obsession with Trump and report the all-important fact that in most polls, both Hillary Clinton and Sanders would defeat Trump by landslide margins.*
*\[....\] It is noteworthy that in this Quinnipiac poll, Sanders runs so much stronger than Clinton against Trump.*
Meanwhile, Budowsky says, *"analysts would be talking about a national political realignment and new progressive era in American history if an enlightened candidate such as Sanders would defeat a retrograde race-baiting candidate such as Trump by a potentially epic and historic margin."*
(Nadia Prupis writes for[ Common Dreams](http://commondreams.org) where this report was posted earlier.)
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