Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) arrives at the Capitol for a March 18 vote. With Sanders now out of the Democratic presidential race, the focus turns to his supporters, and new polling shows that 7 percent of his backers say they'll vote for President Donald Trump against former Vice President Joe Biden. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

7% said they would defect and back President Donald Trump in November, less than the share who did in 2016.

Sanders’ supporters are 51 points more likely to view Biden unfavorably than the average Democrat.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday ended his campaign for president, becoming the last of more than two-dozen candidates to drop their bids for the Democratic nomination and leaving former Vice President Joe Biden as the party’s last man standing. Speaking to supporters on a livestream, Sanders said he saw no feasible path to securing the nomination. “I cannot in good conscience continue to mount a campaign that cannot win, and which would interfere with the important work required of all of us,” he said, highlighting the importance of beating President Donald Trump in November.

Most Sanders supporters are inclined to back Biden in November, but the former vice president will have some work to do to solidify those figures. The latest Morning Consult poll tracking the Democratic race, conducted March 30-April 5, found 80 percent of Democratic primary voters who said Sanders was their first-choice candidate would vote for Biden in a head-to-head matchup against Trump, while 7 percent said they would defect and back the incumbent Republican. The gap is bigger than among Democratic voters as a whole, but is less than the 12 percent of Sanders supporters estimated to have done so in 2016. Sanders supporters, a primarily young coalition of voters, are also more likely than the average Democrat to hold unfavorable views about their party’s presumptive nominee. Eighty percent of Democrats view Biden favorably compared with only 54 percent of Sanders supporters. Forty percent of Sanders supporters have an unfavorable view of Biden versus just 15 percent of Democrats. The poll surveyed 5,675 Democratic voters and 2,323 Sanders supporters, with respective margins of error of 1 and 2 percentage points. In a Wednesday tweet, Trump said Sanders’ campaign “ended just like the Democrats & the DNC wanted” and urged “the Bernie people should come to the Republican Party.”