Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has not ruled out another White House nomination if President Biden decides not to run for re-election, according to a note written by one of Sanders’ top councilors.
“In the case of a Democratic presidential primary open in 2024, Senator Sanders has not ruled out another presidential candidacy, so we recommend that you answer any questions about 2024 with that in mind,” said Faiz Shakir, who was the Sanders ’campaign manager for 2020, wrote in the note sent to the Allies on Wednesday.
The note, first published by The Washington Post and obtained by CBS News, is entitled “Embrace the Attacks.”
“As the campaign heats up in states across the country, your political opponents and their business-aligned allies will try to make you feel defensive about Senator Bernie Sanders’ support for your candidate,” he says. the note. “Our advice is to accept the attacks.”
CBS News contacted the Sanders team, but has not yet received a response. Sanders spokesman Mike Casca told The Washington Post: “While this private media leak is frustrating, the central fact remains that Senator Sanders is the most popular incumbent in the country.”
He cites a recent YouGov poll that found Sanders the current most popular incumbent in the country, and an NBC News poll that found his support would make 71% of Democratic primary voters more likely to give support for a candidate. He also promotes Sanders’ recent work in the labor movement, including an upcoming trip to Staten Island on Sunday to support the Amazon workers’ organization, and Richmond, Virginia, to support the Starbucks workers’ organization.
Sanders was the last Democratic candidate to leave the 2020 presidential primary. In May 2020, Sanders he told the Washington Post that the chances of him running for president again were “very, very slim.”
“I think it’s very, very unlikely that I’m running for president again,” Sanders said. “I think next time you will see another candidate wearing the progressive mantle.”
Some of the top names mentioned as potential future presidential candidates to run for office are Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who recently wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times on what Democrats should do to improve. their medium-term prospects, and representatives Ro Khanna. of California and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
Pete D’Alessandro, who worked on Sanders ’presidential campaigns in Iowa in 2016 and 2020, suggested that Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley would be someone the progressives could meet with.
“She’s one of the most decent people in public life,” D’Alessandro told CBS News. “He would be a very interesting progressive candidate to run.”
But all of this could be debatable in 2024 if the 79-year-old president decides to run again. Mr Biden told ABC News in December that he would run again if he was in “good condition”.
In a recent interview with “CBS Sunday morning“Valerie Biden Owens, the president’s sister and longtime adviser, said she wants her brother to run again in 2024, even though he is 80 years old.
“I think he’s the right person at the right time for the right job,” Norah O’Donnell told CBS Evening News.
While many in the Democratic Party will loudly call for Mr Biden to make a decision, it is not uncommon to wait until after the midterm. While former President Donald Trump ran for re-election on Election Day, former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush presented their paperwork in the spring of their third year in office.
Biden’s aides know that the formal launch of a re-election campaign triggers a number of legal and logistical challenges that will require recalibration of day-to-day operations.
Shakir’s memorandum states that Sanders will run in the 2022 legislature and asks for advice on where the senator should travel. He also says Sanders will endorse more candidates.
The note also advises Sanders’ main allies on how to answer questions about their support for Sanders. He instructs questioned candidates to accept Sanders’ endorsement, as he is technically independent and considered a Social Democrat, to say that Sanders “is raising an extremely popular view for the Democratic Party that will regain the critical support we have lost. “. . “
The note provides advice on how candidates and allies should respond if asked if they would support a Sanders challenge to Mr Biden in 2024.
“Senator Sanders is focused on helping Joe Biden hold a successful presidency,” the note suggests in response. “As chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, no one fought harder for the president’s political agenda than Bernie. He traveled to the Republican Congressional districts last summer to promote Build Back Better. Unfortunately, that legislation was stopped. by corporate democrats. ”
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