you ' re not one of those he turned his back on mmmuh alt rrrright nerds are you <| sep |> Having a death that could have been easily prevented . <| sep |> A lot , if you ' re trying to compete against Make America Great Again . Trump ' s support was weakened a lot after all the revelations about him . His election owed a great deal to Clinton ' s popularity drops . Those drops were a result of Republicans and their allies finding her biggest vulnerabilities among her supporters and hammering them relentlessly . They do the same thing to every Democratic candidate they face , and it works very well . Republicans chipped away Clinton ' s support appealing to Sanders voters . Doesn ' t it stand to reason they ' d have chipped away Sanders support from Clinton voters ? I don ' t know where he would have finished relative to Clinton , but his popularity would have taken a big hit with whatever scandal became the center of Republican attacks against him . It ' s less about the scandal ' s origin and more about how far the Republican smear campaign can blow it up .