I believe Bernie Sanders would have done better in the general election than Joe Biden, for two main reasons:
- He was winning Latinos in the primary easily, and Biden absolutely collapsed with them in the general election.
- He would not have stopped in-person canvassing, which as it turns out isn't THAT dangerous COVID-wise. That was the Democratic Party's unilateral surrender, and it nearly cost them the 2020 election, and several winnable House races no doubt.
I just wonder where this conventional wisdom comes from.
That's what I find so ironic is that Bernie did so well with Latinos and then look what happened in the general. It would have been a coin toss I think between Bernie and Trump because Bernie wouldn't have been able to claw back at the moderate suburban voters that Biden gained to win key states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota.
Bernie losing Minnesota is...a take. He could've done a hair worse in affluent Twin Cities suburbs, but he probably makes up for that by patching up some of the bleeding in the Iron Range, the Red River valley, and along the Iowa border.
