Context for anyone who doesn’t know what this question about. It’s another Biden gaffe.
No, of course not. Like @Demosthenes said: people don’t like being told that their membership in group X depends on something that isn’t essential to being X. And they’re right to dislike it because it’s nonsense. It’s the same problem that comes up when people are criticized for “voting against their interests.”
We don’t get to decide what is or is not in someone else’s interests. If I value A and B, but I value A more than B, then I’m not voting against my interests if I support someone who will defend A but not B over someone who will defend B but not A. (I’m also not voting against my interests if I vote for someone who will defend B but not A but isn’t in a position to attack or otherwise undermine A).