All of these "these people weren't going to vote for Biden anyway" arguments ring very hollow to me. There is a significant cadre of potential voters who are turned off by this tendency on the left to treat the electorate like the editorial board of the New York Times. Woke signalling - even the appearance of it - hurts your chances of getting them to vote for you. Many of them are even on the far left, squarely in the Bernie camp.
Honestly, the thought process that a lot of people seem to go through when voting is not very sophisticated. There are plenty of people who will go to the polls that are fickle enough that they'll be swayed by things as simple as whether you come across as sincere. I mean there are plenty of things that should be wholly disqualifying for Trump to ever receive anyone's vote, but if your view is that none of the people who might show up to vote for him are in any way persuadable not to, I think that's both incorrect and defeatist, especially given that there were plenty of them who voted for Obama the previous two elections. So I have to just reject your whole premise there.
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