Community bankers, when polled, are about evenly split between supporting Hillary Clinton, whom they believe will keep or increase regulations that are driving them out of business and are really more appropriate for large TBTF banks, or Donald Trump, who is mostly an unknown element with regard to small banks. Unmentioned in this article is Bernie Sanders, who is on record as supporting public banks and postal banks.
If the general election comes down to Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump, many community bankers are uncertain whom they will back. They fear Clinton will continue the regulatory crackdown against the industry, but are unsure what plans Trump would put in motion.