Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) is taking a “hard look” at a possible 2024 presidential run, his adviser said.
Faiz Shakir, Sanders’s longtime adviser, added that a potential 2024 run would be contingent on whether President Joe Biden seeks reelection, and Sander’s own health, he told CBS News. While Sanders, 81, doesn’t appear to have discussed the topic with Shakir personally, the longtime adviser is close enough to the Vermont senator that his statement is a good indicator that Sanders may try for president for a third time, after two close losses in the Democratic primary.
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“I assume that he would give it a hard look,” Shakir told the outlet. “I don’t want to make the judgment for him. Obviously, it would be his choice to make. But I assume that he would want to reevaluate it.”
Sanders, who would be 83 in the 2024 election, is “very aware that he’s older now and 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. But if it were an open field? Yeah, I’m confident he would take another look at it and say, ‘Do I want to do this or not?'” Shakir added.
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Sanders, a democratic socialist, ran on a progressive platform that won him over in the eyes of many young voters, making him runner up against Hillary Clinton in 2016 and against Joe Biden in 2020.
