Top Democrats jockey for 2024 presidential campaign position – By Jonathan Allen and Natasha Korecki (NBC News) / May 12, 2022
Bernie Sanders is just the most openly ambitious of an emerging field of Democratic hopefuls who are positioning themselves to run for president next time if Biden doesn’t.
WASHINGTON — In recent months, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ political team has noticed a marked shift in the 80-year-old former presidential candidate: His campaign fires are burning hot.
On Thursday, Sanders, I-Vt., will travel to Pittsburgh to headline a rally for Summer Lee, one of a half-dozen hard-core progressives he has endorsed in contested Democratic congressional primaries. He also plans to meet with Starbucks workers in the city to show solidarity in a store-by-store unionization push.
And, more than two years out from the 2024 election, the iconoclastic Sanders is having private discussions about the possibility of making a third bid for the Oval Office — with the caveat that he would do so only if President Joe Biden reverses course and chooses not to run — according to people close to him.
