-Liz, why are we going to Ikea?
Because we're going to unite the Democratic Party.
And also, I kind of want meatballs.
You would think that uniting a party running against
a Republican billionaire
that calls Mexicans rapists and women fat pigs
would be a piece of cake.
But guess again.
Are you voting for Hillary in the fall?
No way.
No, no, no.
No.
Not at all.
No.
No, I couldn’t.
I am not.
There's no way in hell I'm voting for Hillary.
Despite Hillary clinching the nomination and Bernie himself endorsing Clinton,
a large number still refuse to put their support behind the Democratic candidate.
Of course, the DNC email leak confirmed what many Bernie Sanders supporters were already
feeling:
That the party favored Clinton and that they never stood a chance.
The Bernie or Bust movement persists
with a YouGov survey showing that only 44%
of people who voted for Sanders in the primaries
intend to vote for Hillary Clinton come this fall.
And this is bad news for her.
For instance, in the battleground state of Pennsylvania
polls show that Clinton only has a 1% lead over
Donald Trump.
But if she could get half of Sanders supporters behind her
that lead could go up.
I wanted to know if I could find a way to bridge this gap.
Using a method devised by a therapist to help practice better communication,
we had our subjects construct a small night table.
We locked up Katie, a self described Bernie Bro,
and Ben, a Hillary supporter,
in a room with no AC, no water, and with one frustratingly simple task.
What could go wrong?
Oh my God.
Let's take these screws
and secure them.
And unscrew America.
Yeah.
But screw together this weird a** table.
What Bernie Sanders did is amazing.
Bernie Sanders engaged an audience
of voters that have never been engaged like that before.
Literally, he broke records.
But some of those people aren't politically experienced.
They haven't seen how our democratic system works,
and so they get angry when they don't get the results they want.
Every single step of the way
Hillary's defenders,
not all of them, but I'll say the most vocal and closest
to the campaign,
have been pushing back on all efforts to hold her
at all accountable and move her to the left.
Katie, that's not true.
Look at Social Security,
Where Hillary Clinton has changed her–
But that wasn't because of–
That was because of progressive voices coming together
and fighting to push her to the left.
Okay, I'm talking about the people who– and you're not this–
but there are lots of supporters of Hillary
who attack Bernie people
and say that they have to get in line and that
they're going to let Trump win.
What Donald Trump is trying to do is to make America
more hateful, more racist, more xenophobic -I know this, he's terrible.
Then oppose him.
I am opposing him
but I think you can do it better if you don't try to beat
Bernie people over the head and blame them.
All I'm saying is that we have a real threat to this country,
to marginalized communities across this country,
and the way to combat it
is to encourage as many people as possible
to get out and vote against Trump.
And right now the other option is Secretary Clinton.
If you don't like that option,
which makes sense for a lot of people,
then push her to be more like the person that you want her to be.
After almost an hour, they still hadn't reached consensus
or successfully built a night table.
But still, data shows that although there are some differences
between Sanders and Clinton supporters,
there is an even bigger ideology gap between Trump and
the Bernie camp.
So what gives?
One factor might be who's voting for Bernie in the first place.
According to data from FiveThirtyEight,
the Sanders campaign attracted voters
who are less likely to vote in elections.
Add to the mix their declining view of Hillary Clinton over the course
of the primary
and it's not hard to understand the discord.
So when I spoke to FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten
it wasn't Ikea that he suggested as a solution to Hillary Clinton's
Bernie Bro woes.
What does Hillary need to do to really get a grasp
on this coalition of voters?
I think one of the things she already did, they adopted a very
progressive platform.
I think that could get the activists on her side
and then those activists could be thought of as leaders
and people look to them.
I mean for a long time we've been dividing, right–
it's a two-party system,
it's Republican, Democrat.
Could we be seeing a shift in terms of how people affiliate?
Could it change to insider and outsider, or establishment or anti-establishment?
Absolutely, I mean we've seen a number of votes in the House
over the past few years
in which, you know, people who were part of the establishment–
so called, I don't know if that's necessarily a good title,
but part of the establishment – voted together while those on the far left and the far right
who are really outsiders, voted together.
It's quite possible
that in fact we do see a multi-dimensional system.
In fact, that's the way it's been throughout most of our history.
It's only been more recently where we've been able to put
things on a left and right spectrum.
So why can't things change?
There's nothing special about the system we have now.
Bernie supporters have had a huge impact on the Democratic Party
and changed the way that we view the two-party system.
But now that their candidate has endorsed Hillary,
where do they go from here?
Will they back her and work within the system,
or will their disappointment encourage them to opt out
or vote for a third party?
Or they do have another option.
Bernie Sanders voters, please, vote for Trump.
Come on over, the water's fine.
We welcome you to the Republican Party.
You may not feel comfortable at the beginning–
So consider Donald Trump, people, it's for God and country.
Come to the other side, we'll welcome you with open arms.
I totally welcome all of you Bernie supporters to the Trump team.
It's so inspiring, it really shows how we can work together.
Not to construct anything or debate
but in theory we can work together.
Organize so Hillary Clinton is more electable
and doesn't get defeated by Trump.
Just cut to that.
Okay, editors.
Let's cut there, we got it.
We got the shot.