Feel the Bern, Again? Sensing Weak Biden, Dems May Turn to Octogenarian Socialist for 2024
Eighty-year-old socialist and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders (I.), who is best known for sporting mittens and looking grumpy at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, is considering a third run for president in 2024, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
“In the event of an open 2024 Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Sanders has not ruled out another run for president,” top Sanders adviser and 2020 campaign manager Faiz Shakir wrote in the memo, which was leaked to the Post.
Shakir’s mention of “an open 2024 Democratic presidential primary” implies that top Democratic brass have doubts that Biden, who will turn 82 in 2024, will run for a second term. While a majority of Americans think Biden is “too old” to do his job, the president told his former boss, Barack Obama, that he’s running.
Sanders spokesman Mike Casca in a statement to the Post called the leak of the memo “frustrating” but did not deny the memo’s contents. – READ MORE
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