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MINI-THREAD: If you're someone on the left and you want to defeat Biden, a 76-year-old white guy, then maybe backing Sanders, a 77-year-old white guy, is not the way to do it.
Like it or not, "identity" (race, age, gender) is a major aspect of what people vote on. And you're probably not going to persuade many voters to back Bernie over Biden on the basis of electability or "leadership" (since Biden was VP); those are disadvantages for you, in fact.
So you're really banking on making up a LOT of ground on Bernie being closer to the center of the Democratic electorate on policy, which it's not clear he is, or voters agreeing with his institutional critique of the Democratic Party, which most Democrats won't.
It's early and Biden's post-annoucement polling bounce will probably fade. But it's formidable enough that it maybe ought to prompt some reassessments of strategy. Bernie is limited in the number of arguments he can make vs. Biden when another candidate of the left might not be.
