![]() “We’re getting some things, but it’s not enough,” Lara told Playbook. She said the progressive aims Biden seemed open to on the campaign trail, like forgiving student loans, have “fallen by the wayside” during his presidency. | Lisa Kashinsky/POLITICOīoston City Councilor Kendra Lara is open to another Sanders presidential campaign, if he’s healthy enough. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) pro-labor-union rally in Cambridge, Mass., on Aug. In a poll released last week, Sanders tied Vice President Kamala Harris for the second-most support among California’s Democratic primary voters if Biden skips 2024.Ī "Bernie 2024" sign at Sen. Sanders aides sent around a memo earlier this year signaling that he hadn’t closed the door to a third presidential bid should Biden not run again. And they're disappointed by what they view as Biden’s failures to more fully tackle student loan debt - that could change by the end of the month - and to embrace single-payer health care. They’re undaunted by his age - Sanders would be 83 on Election Day in 2024. Supporters of the Vermont senator said they’d like to see him run for president again. He drew as much applause for mentions of Medicare for All as he did when he spoke of fighting for good wages and benefits for workers and called to “create an economy and a government that works for all of us, and not just a few.” Sanders’ speech was part championing of organized labor, part callback to the messaging that defined his two failed presidential bids. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) rallies with labor leaders in Cambridge, Mass., on Aug. Others donned union shirts and carried union banners for the pro-labor-union rally “fighting back against corporate greed,” one of several Sanders has held across the country with International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ President Sean O’Brien and Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Sara Nelson. A few cries of “Bernie 2024” rang out after his speech. Two women walked through the crowd with a handmade Bernie 2024 poster - a visual representation of the sentiments of many in the Sanders-friendly crowd. They came wearing T-shirts from Sanders’ 2016 presidential run, carrying posters from his 2020 bid and sporting baseball caps emblazoned with his name. Elizabeth Warren’s home in a state where President Joe Biden defeated them both in 2020. That enduring strength was on display on Sunday when Sanders, despite sweltering temperatures and late-summer vacations, drew upwards of 1,000 people to the Cambridge Common just minutes from Sen. ON THE STUMP - Bernie Sanders’ summer rallies are as much a show of support for the organized labor movement as they are a show of the staying power of his political movement.
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