Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is considering another stab at the U.S. Presidency, according to former campaign manager Jeff Weaver.
Speaking with C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” on Tuesday, Weaver said “He is considering another run for the presidency,” when asked whether Sanders’s supporters would have the opportunity to vote for their favorite democratic socialist (who owns three homes).
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Weaver, according to Yahoo! News has been “keeping tabs on 2020 issues,” frequently attending meetings of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws committee as they formulate changes in strategy, including a likely reduction in the number of superdelegates.
Weaver was more than an observer at these meetings — he frequently huddled and conversed with members of the committee, a clear sign of interest on the part of Sanders’s top adviser in how the primary will be structured. –Yahoo! News
Weaver also downplayed concerns over the 79-year-old Sanders’s age – which would make him the oldest U.S. president ever elected after Donald Trump.
“Anybody who follows Bernie Sanders for one day and sees his schedule, and how rigorous it is, and how he drives everybody around him, works them into the ground with the amount of work and energy he has, I think they would understand that his chronological age is just not really a measure of his true age,” Weaver said. “[He] is an extremely energetic and vigorous person, and has more energy, I would say, than people half his age.”
Sanders announced last week that he will seek reelection in Vermont, where he has been a U.S. Senator since 2006, following a 16-year stint as the state’s lone congressman.
Earlier this month, Sanders appeared along with several possible 2020 candidates at the annual conference of the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., where he delivered a speech that was notably similar to the one that launched his 2016 presidential campaign.
In his speech, Sanders stressed the need for unity in taking on Trump.
“We live in an unprecedented moment in American history, and we need an unprecedented response,” he said. “Together — black, white, Latino, Native American, Asian American, women and men, gay and straight, young and old — we must not allow Donald Trump or anyone else to divide us up. Because when we stand together as one people, united, fighting for a progressive agenda, there is nothing, nothing, nothing that we cannot accomplish.”
No word on whether Hillary Clinton will throw her hat in the ring for 2020, and if so, whether the DNC will give her debate questions in advance.
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