One question that should be asked at tonight’s debate, “Will you support the candidate no matter who it is? And will you encourage your supporters to do the same?” Every candidate should be required to answer this.

We know most Republicans are united around one candidate, Donald Trump. But Democrats remain divided and there is no sign that will change after the nominee is chosen.

On The View today, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes (D.NY) was asked whether she would support the candidate “whoever it is.” She reluctantly said, “I think we have to.”

But polls show that all Democrats & Independents may not feel the same way. New York Magazine recently reportedly: One recent Emerson College poll found that only 53 percent of Sanders’s current supporters plan to vote for the Democratic nominee in November, no matter who that person turns out to be. 

Newsweek added: By comparison to Sanders, 87 percent of former vice president Joe Biden’s supporters said yes to voting for whoever wins the nomination, 9 percent it depends on the winning candidate, and 5 percent said no to anyone that is not Biden.

Those polls were conducted before Mike Bloomberg’s recent surge, but there is certainly reason to believe the numbers would remain the same if Bloomberg were the nominee.

If this feels familiar, that’s because it is. Flashback to late June 2016, Bloomberg.com wrote “A June 14 Bloomberg Politics national poll of likely voters in November’s election found that barely half of those who favored Sanders — 55 percent — plan to vote for Clinton. Instead, 22 percent say they’ll vote for Trump, while 18 percent favor Libertarian Gary Johnson.”

Buzzfeed recently asked a handful of Biden supporters whether they would vote for Sanders if he gets the nomination, quotes ranged from, “I would vote for my dead cat over Trump” to “I would vote for the devil himself if he ran against Trump. I think we learned something from last time.”