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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
Dems going after the GOP voters that could be swayed is a better strategy than the extreme left that don't vote. Every GOP voter on the fence is basically worth 2 of the non-voting left (as you have to get one to cancel the GOP vote and 1 to beat it). You also don't want to sway the Dem voter on the fence over to the GOP by signing too far left.
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I don't even think it's a matter of appealing to your own voters. Seems to me, it's more a matter of not providing ammunition for attack ads and segments on Tucker Carlson.
Outside of the major speeches by Biden, Obama and a couple of others (and in many cases not even then), no one who isn't already voting Democrat is watching the Democratic National Convention. The average latino voter isn't going to notice if AOC gets a secondary speaking slot and the average Bernie bro has already decided what they're doing come November.
All giving AOC a bunch of time to speak does is provide further opportunity to mine her speech for sound bites that can be used in attack ads to rile up the people who watch Fox news and convince low-information voters that the Democrats are scary, as is tradition.