The iconic , 82 year old Independent US Senator for Vermont, by wqay of Brooklyn, New York is up for re-election this November……
He DOES have a fan club pushing for him
And?
He doesn’t really have Joe Biden’s age issue….
We wait till May for his decision …..
Longtime allies of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are urging him to run for reelection and say they believe he will seek to hold onto his Senate seat in November.
“We won’t let him retire,” said RoseAnn DeMoro, the former head of the National Nurses United union and a close political ally to the senator who said she expects him to run. “The absence of Bernie Sanders in the Senate would cause a massive vacuum.”….
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“I think he’s one of these kinds of guys who wants to go out with his boots on,” said Mark Longabaugh, a Democratic strategist who advised Sanders’s previous presidential run but is no longer in his inner circle. “No riding off into the sunset.”
His allies say he appears to be in good health and is clearly still energized by his business in the Senate. “He hasn’t lost his passion for it at all,” said one Democratic senator who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail private discussions. “He’s not planning a life in Florida.”
Sanders — who told reporters in January he would announce his future political plans “soon” — still has months before he needs to disclose his intentions, and it’s possible he could decide not to run. The filing deadline in Vermont is not until late May. If he were to forgo a run, Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) would be a likely successor in the blue state….