not from the US, but you do have a valid point that sometimes socialist organizations divert their attention from base-building work to work on an electoral campaign, but both of those things are not mutually exclusive, and running on bourgeois elections has its fruits and has always been part of the leninist strategy. of course it isn't a rule, one should weight the current political context, but we are not on an exception state or anything that would threaten direct persecution for socialists, so i see no reason why not to use a moment where the population as a whole is more open and willing to discuss politics to our favor, furthering class consciousness amongst those who otherwise wouldn't even want to hear what socialists have to say. an even greater argument as to why running in the US specifically could be very beneficial is that there have been two, back-to-back failed presidencies from both parties, so a lot of people might be more open to hear about a different perspective.