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Counterpoint: Nominating someone close to the center might alienate ultramotivated progressives who are ready to mobilize and knock on doors, phonebank and grind out votes for someone they're passionate about. It's not as if there aren't big risks to doing the other thing, too.
If you're a Democratic campaign, is the more attractive audience a group of centrists who may or may not come back from voting for Trump, or a bunch of leftyish zealots who would put in any amount of campaign work to win?
(I think I have to add the perpetual reporter caveat that this will be a constant argument all the way up until November 2020, at which point it will be impossible to conclusively beta-test whether the alternative would have been a better or worse choice under the circumstances)
