Time
Bernie Sanders’ allies are laying the groundwork for a 2024 campaign. Why that’s actually good for Biden
Last week, many pragmatic Democrats in Washington moaned at the news that Senator Bernie Sanders’ inner circle was laying the groundwork for a potential bid for the White House in 2024, which would be his third in as many presidential cycles and once again give a vote to a progressive. message that has so far yielded no victories in battlefield area. The self-proclaimed Democratic socialist from Vermont has animated a distinct chunk of the Democratic Party’s liberal wing, and that’s clearly not where Sanders calls his home if he’s not looking for his White House nomination. There’s a significant chunk of the Democratic establishment that openly loathes Sanders for standing in the way of a neat nomination for Hillary Clinton in 2016, despising him for not rallying his base behind her faster, while instead writing a book that made him a millionaire, and wonders why he forced Joe Biden to defend his own policy views in multiple focus groups in exchange for an endorsement two years ago.
