Oh, about those moderate Republicans voters looking for safe Democrats who are Bipartisan ...

David Sirota, Andrew Perez, and Julia Rock offer a salty list of Six Takeaways From Election Night Daily Poster 11/04/2020:

1. Democrats’ Weak Economic Message Hugely Helped Trump
2. The Lincoln Project And Rahm Emanuel Embarrassed Themselves
3. People Don’t Love The Affordable Care Act
4. A Lot Of Grassroots Money Was Set On Fire
5. A Large Percentage Of Americans Have Lost Their Minds

The most obvious split in the Democratic Party for the last 20 years has not been over issues, not even the Iraq War or Medicare for All, but over how much Democratic politicians should fight the Republicans.

Point #2 gets directly to that divide. The biggest excuse for Democrats not fighting was the alleged need to appeal to moderate voters by showing their willingness to be Bipartisan. But Sirota et al write:

The Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump cash cow for veteran Republican consultants, has raised $40 million from MSNBC-watching Brunch Liberals in just the last few months, and is now set to launch a media brand off the idea that its GOP operatives are political geniuses.

Their ads focused on trying to court disaffected Republican voters and attack Trump’s character, as Biden loaded up the Democratic convention with GOP speakers. When polls during the summer showed that the strategy wasn’t working, galaxy brain Rahm Emanuel defended it to a national televised audience, insisting that 2020 would be “the year of the Biden Republican.”

Now survey data show the strategy epically failed, as Trump actually garnered even more support from GOP voters than in 2016. Indeed, Edison Research exit polls on Tuesday found that 93 percent of Republican voters supported Trump — three percentage points higher than in 2016, according to numbers from the same firm. [my emphasis]