Bloomberg internal poll claims Sanders would sink down ballot races

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The poll found Sanders essentially running even with Trump in a head-to-head match-up across the districts, trailing the incumbent by just one point. But Trump opens up 6-point advantage after a list of negative messages about Sanders' ideology and alleged ineffectiveness in the Senate is presented to poll respondents.

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But Sanders' potential impact extends beyond the presidential race. A plurality of voters, 39 percent, say they will be less likely to vote for a Democrat for Congress if Sanders is the Democratic nominee and his ideas are folded into the party platform. That's nearly double the 21 percent who say they would be more likely to vote for a Democrat for Congress, while 34 percent say it wouldn’t impact their vote.

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The poll found that 47 percent of voters in competitive, Democratic-held districts felt that “the increased role of socialist ideas in the Democratic Party” was a “bad thing,” and 19 percent “ believe it is a good thing,” and 24 percent said “it makes no difference to them.” The poll was conducted Feb. 22-23 and surveyed 600 likely general election voters across 42 districts in the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's "Frontline" program for vulnerable party incumbents. The survey's margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.

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The memo was shared with some House Democrats late Monday, including members in vulnerable House districts. Bloomberg’s House supporters received a briefing on the results, a source said, which are also being used to recruit new endorsers as Sanders rises and Biden’s candidacy largely hinges on the outcome of South Carolina’s primary this Saturday.

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