BS on Colbert refuses the opportunity to make a "full throated endorsement" of Biden.

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25. In fairness to Bernie

I had forgotten this until recently, but I recall reading in 2016 that until the last month or so of the campaign, Hillary was reluctant to have Bernie be too prominent as a supporter. I think she was the one who chose not to have more joint events with him, and I read recently that he cut an ad for her in 2016 that she decided not to use. I don't know what the ad was or why she didn't use it, but my guess is she calculated the political cost to being associated too heavily with a self-declared socialist outweighed the potential benefit. In 2008, that wasn't the case because she and Obama had similar ideological stances, and the divide was more about identity politics than issues.