If Bernie was the D nominee, does the house flip?

[Sestak]

2020 Bernie? Yes.

Joe Biden was the only Democratic candidate who wasn't fully Twitterized by the time 2020 rolled around. I love Bernie personally, but his campaign the second time around was fully taken over by his own set of blue check twitter losers who appeal to no one. The Democratic Party as a whole in 2020 was dogged by their image as the party defined by the woke Twitter Brain pseudo-academic. The only people in the general who were really separated from this were Biden, a few House candidates, and Ossock (plus maybe a few of the longer shot candidates like Bullock or Espy).

Given the margins in the House, I don't think any of the Twitter-embracers could have navigated all of the various happenings from April through November between protests, Covid, etc. without severely dogging both themselves and further hurting the candidates below them.