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.
Just because Bernie won hispanics in the primary doesn't mean he would do better in the general. I would assume Bernie hispanic primary voters all voted for Biden. The shift for Hispanics towards Trump came almost entirely from first time voters who weren't going to vote Democrat at all
