Was thinking the same thing, sounds like he's looking to win some votes back.

He won't be winning many votes back, as those who like Snowden likely didn't vote for him, but he might be considering winning some votes "forward", as it's not likely Republicans would vote for Biden just to spite Trump for pardoning Snowden - who is increasingly irrelevant anyway, he did what he did and by now nobody cares about his personal destiny too much and it's not likely there's a chance to punish him anyway. But if he could win some independents who are on the fence - that would be nice.

This is a good thing, right? Polititians try to do the right things to win votes. This is how democracy works.

It is the right thing when they have consistent ideas they do - or will implement.

It is the wrong thing when they publicly consider a bunch of things they won't do, or do tiny but loud actions without consistency, that are not aligned with their political agenda but just wish to win votes.

Disclaimer: I'm not American, but that's a pattern we unfortunately see a lot these days

If someone does the right thing for the wrong reasons, what's the problem? It's certainly better than them not doing the right thing at all.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/353571-a-foolish-consistenc...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/738162-i-do-not-believe-tha...

“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.” -Milton Friedman

  ^^^^

Similarly, the reasons the wrong people do the right things are not too important, as long as they're doing the right things.