Maybe,

why maybe and not obviously yes?

but Democrats are running an 80 year-old conservative

they're also running a 41 year old murder enthusiast who is larping as a progressive, and they're bolstering his credibility by pretending to fear his policies. it's called hedging.

His problem is he never expected to run for office and therefore didn’t delete his socials.

You think the problem is that he didn't delete is socials? (He actually did delete them and hoped to get away with it, it's just that reddit archives exist and someone leaked his username to CNN.)

I think the problem is actually that (in his own words) he "wanted to have an adventure and kill some people. Joined up in ‘04, did Fallujah and Ramadi, and managed both."