Hillary Clinton’s national poll numbers have been falling for months, and pundits are quick to blame her ongoing email scandal. So are Republican politicians. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy lost his chance to become majority leader by connecting the email scandal and the Benghazi committee to Clinton’s dropping numbers, fueling even more talk that emails are a major cause of Clinton’s decline.

But the evidence points to a different culprit: The rise of Bernie Sanders.

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