This is true as well. And while most will say "good riddance" these were still educated, high-propensity voters who showed up to every election, and still do. Just not for us.
Gotta think outside the box, otherwise Trump voters are not going to show up.
I suspect that the Democrats will not nominate a blatant leftist like AOC, a left of center type like Tim Walz, or someone like Gavin Newsom, who would have to justify the messes he fostered in California. It is more likely that they will go to a moderate seeming white man like Andy Beshear of Kentucky. The party’s nominating convention is as fixed as the old Soviet Politburo. Look at the treatment of Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020 and the decision, more or less last minute, to dump Joe Biden and replace him with Kamala Harris. The fact that the suburban vote from the Main Line suburbs of Philadelphia to Orange County in California has drifted to the Democrats is where the issue is for that party: hold the former Bush/McCain/Romney Republicans. The Democrats have lost the white South and the white Catholics in the North. The country club types make up for these losses. If you run a candidate too far left, you can lose them or have them sit out, say, a Buttigeg vs. Vance race.