Sanders will give 2024 'a hard look' if Biden doesn't run: adviser

[Uncle Joe]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will likely take “a hard look” at launching a third bid for the presidency if President Biden chooses not to run in 2024, a longtime adviser to the progressive senator said on Thursday.

“I assume that he would give it a hard look,” Faiz Shakir told CBS News. “I don’t want to make a judgment for him. Obviously, it would be his choice to make. But I assume that he would want to reevaluate it.”

Sanders previously sought the Democratic nomination in both 2016 and 2020. Currently 81 years old, the senator is “very aware that he’s older now,” Shakir added.

“He’d have to make a real judgment about his own vigor and his stamina and his desire and hunger and passion to do this a third time,” Shakir said. “But if it were an open field? Yeah, I’m confident he would take another look at it.”

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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3768004-sanders-will-give-2024-a-hard-look-if-biden-doesnt-run-adviser/

[samnsara]

1. bidens gonna run..hes the best one for the job at the moment

[calguy]

2. Does Bernie really want to be a three-time loser?

[Uncle Joe]

3. If I'm not mistaken, didn't it take President Biden three times?

[calguy]

9. Bernie Sanders is no Joe Biden.

[Uncle Joe]

10. That's correct, no one is anyone else.

[mopinko]

11. not back to back.

3rd time is almost never a charm.
i take it as disrespect to the process to run 3 damn times. on top of the shenanigans that keep him on the ballot in vt, oh hell no.

[DinahMoeHum]

4. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

ABSOLUTELY UNH-UNH

[bottomofthehill]

5. When do we celebrate Bernie's 100th birthday

Soon right?

[AkFemDem]

6. No More Old Men.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Old Man

[ColinC]

12. Such a wonderful song

[apcalc]

8. A most emphatic NO!

[DURHAM D]

13. Ok

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. The new Democratic primary lineup will be bad for Sanders

No 90%+ white states up front and far fewer if any caucuses.

[Tarheel_Dem]

15. Unless Bernie's team is just anxious to see how many more millions they can pull in, I don't see...

why they would put him through that again. As has already been mentioned, the revised primary schedule will not be kind to Sanders. Everyone's free to run if they so choose, but how much rejection is enough? Perhaps this is being bandied about to test the waters?