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Originally Posted by nfotiu
A hard progressive candidate would have complicated things. It would be a referendum of taking a socialism turn and referendum on Trump and would leave a lot of people having to decide which is the lesser evil.
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I think after the COVID fiasco and Trump's response to the protestors, almost any Democratic candidate would have likely beaten him. You might have lost some of the suburban white voters, but that's probably offset by the increase in Latino voters that Bernie carried.
It likely would be closer than it is is now, and it likely means that Arizona, North Carolina, and possibly Florida are out of play, but if you shave off even 5% of Biden's popular (RCP average has it at Biden +9.4), Bernie probably would have still had enough to carry the rust belt States and seal a win.