If "BERNIE SANDERS SEX TAPE LEAKED" was a headline the night before and he was the nominee...

[Kleine Scheiße]

...regardless of if it was true, what would happen?

I believe jeffrey epstein is alive for the record

[Dr. MB]

Bernie sanders gay ??

[PSOL]

Like hell I’m watching a corpse get it on.

[Former Crackhead Mike Lindell]

Early voting is likely just as huge in this timeline as it was in reality - I doubt a Sanders sex tape would turn many election day voters away. If anything it could help: Lazy Trump voters see that headline and think, 'oh, good, Trump's got this, I don't have to vote today.' And lower-info Sanders voters see it and think, 'oh, crap, yeah, election's today, huh.'

[Diabolical Materialism]

Depending on the content of the sex tape, it may be a net positive for Sanders

[Ferguson97]

As long as it's a consensual tape of him and his wife, I don't really see how it hurts him. He might even get some sympathy points.

[lord_moxley]

[Chips]

Depending on the content of the sex tape, it may be a net positive for Sanders

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IS I WOULD TORRENT THE F#CKING THING AND PLEASURE MYSELF TO IT FURIOUSLY

[Kleine Scheiße]

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IS I WOULD TORRENT THE F#CKING THING AND PLEASURE MYSELF TO IT FURIOUSLY

I appreciate you're honesty.

[Torrain]

Tbh, the first thing to happen would be hundred GOP influencers and politicians being banned from social media after they shared the uncensored footage with their thousands of followers.

CNN would assemble a 40-person panel to discuss whether it was in the public interest to air the footage, while Fox would air stills from the video each night on Tucker Carlson's show. OAN would run it on a loop for weeks.

The NYTimes would release a series of editorials asking whether the public's discomfort with footage of elderly people 'getting it on' was a signal that ageism was a major force in US life, and set up a body-positivity campaign.

And somewhere in the wilds of rural New York, Hillary Clinton would be laughing.

[McGarnagle]

Headline the day after -

Nation Impressed With Sanders' Performance
Sanders will be oldest, first Jewish and first democratic socialist President
President-elect Sanders wins 46 states, 54% of popular vote
Stacey Abrams first African-American woman elected Vice President
Sanders sex tape "a non-issue compared to COVID" say voters
Trump falls shy of 40%, receives just 24 Electoral Votes
Bloomberg bid fails, but pulls 5% from Sanders and Trump

Sanders/Abrams (D) 54% 514 EV
Trump/Pence (R) 39% 24 EV
Bloomberg/Delaney (I) 5%

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

It might have negative but negligible effects in 49 states, but don’t forget that Cunningham led Tillis in the completely accurate polls taken right after Historically Sexy broke. NC has been a sex-positive state since (at the latest) 2008, when it rejected anti-sex education Elizabeth Dole and broke a 28-year Republican presidential streak only after “I’m in Love with Obama” dropped.

This headline dropping right before e-day would easily swing the state into Sanders’ column.