BOOM!! Inadequate Dem Brand is what hurt *NOT* Defund Police!! 2nd Dem 2020 Report to say so.

[Drunken Irishman]

78. Biden is likely the only reason we won the White House...

And it's because he came out and emphatically said no to Defund the Police. Others attempted to muddle the waters by saying that defund the police means blah, blah, blah.

Had Bernie been the nominee and I think he'd have been attached to the movement and would have had little daylight between his campaign and it, even if he came out against it. But because Biden already had a built up image as a moderate, he could do just that.

In any other scenario, Democrats lose the suburbs and Trump ekes out wins in PA, MI, GA, AZ & WI, winning reelection.

What people fail to get is that Defund the Police was a non-starter in non-urban areas of the United States. Who gives two shits if it's not a liability in an extremely urban congressional district that is going to go blue no matter what?

What about those moderate districts Biden won and the Democrats barely held in suburban PA and Wisconsin?

That's the boom right there.