The “Who is running in 2024?” tea leaves thread

[NewYorkExpress]

Bernie Sanders is out.

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders has endorsed President Biden’s re-election, closing the door on mounting a third consecutive insurgent White House bid in 2024.

The 81-year-old Sanders (I-Vt.), who challenged Biden, 80, for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, told the Associated Press he would “do everything I can to see the president is re-elected.”

“The last thing this country needs is a Donald Trump or some other right-wing demagogue who is going to try to undermine American democracy or take away a woman’s right to choose, or not address the crisis of gun violence, or racism, sexism or homophobia,” said Sanders, who famously ran a closer-than-expected primary race against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

“So, I’m in to do what I can to make sure that the president is re-elected.”

[Lincoln Project]

Ron DeSantis to launch 2024 Presidential Exploratory Committee in May.
(can’t post links yet, so somebody please put something here)

[The Mikado]

Bernie Sanders is out.

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders has endorsed President Biden’s re-election, closing the door on mounting a third consecutive insurgent White House bid in 2024.

The 81-year-old Sanders (I-Vt.), who challenged Biden, 80, for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, told the Associated Press he would “do everything I can to see the president is re-elected.”

“The last thing this country needs is a Donald Trump or some other right-wing demagogue who is going to try to undermine American democracy or take away a woman’s right to choose, or not address the crisis of gun violence, or racism, sexism or homophobia,” said Sanders, who famously ran a closer-than-expected primary race against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

“So, I’m in to do what I can to make sure that the president is re-elected.”

Throw in:

https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1650862280098328584

And:


https://twitter.com/gretchenwhitmer/status/1650881130990653445

The two other most prominent Dems sometimes having names thrown around as potential challengers.

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Bernie Sanders is out.

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders has endorsed President Biden’s re-election, closing the door on mounting a third consecutive insurgent White House bid in 2024.

The 81-year-old Sanders (I-Vt.), who challenged Biden, 80, for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, told the Associated Press he would “do everything I can to see the president is re-elected.”

“The last thing this country needs is a Donald Trump or some other right-wing demagogue who is going to try to undermine American democracy or take away a woman’s right to choose, or not address the crisis of gun violence, or racism, sexism or homophobia,” said Sanders, who famously ran a closer-than-expected primary race against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

“So, I’m in to do what I can to make sure that the president is re-elected.”

But he's not even a Democrat!

[The Mikado]

Courtesy of Kaiser Dave:


https://twitter.com/JBPritzker/status/1650879181138407428

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

I can’t imagine any congressional democrat or governor endorsing someone besides Biden. I can see a few trying to stay out of it for re-election

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

I can’t imagine any congressional democrat or governor endorsing someone besides Biden. I can see a few trying to stay out of it for re-election

Manchin may endorse whoever the No Labels party is lol

[NewYorkExpress]

The Florida Legislature has repealed the resign to run law as it pertains to a possible DeSantis Presidential bid.

Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature on Friday approved sweeping election law changes, including a provision that clears the way for Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president without having to resign his current position.

[Torie]

Susan Glasser penned a tea leaf nomination in the New Yorker in a rather memorable string of words so I thought I would copy and paste them here. She also thinks that Kamala Harris is Biden's Achilles heel, but never mind. Getting into that would be off topic for this thread, and we can't have that.

Elsewhere in Florida, Carlson briefly reëmerged from his Fox-imposed silence on Wednesday night with a direct-to-Twitter video, seemingly taped in his wood-panelled home sauna, attacking the stupidity of American political discourse. The bizarre rant, quickly viewed millions of times, added to the speculation that Carlson might emerge as a 2024 Republican challenger to Trump. “Celebrity, money, mental acuity, cynicism, pro-Putin isolationism, and an overt love of authoritarianism are a pretty strong secret sauce for the MAGA base,” Rick Wilson, the former Republican strategist turned Never Trump activist, argued on Twitter. “Celebrity got Trump the WH,” he added. “It could certainly do the same for Tucker. And spare me your ‘That could never happen. Even Trump’s GOP would never vote for a former TV host pushing white replacement theory.’ That’s PRECISELY who they’d vote for.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/the-week-the-biden-trump-rematch-got-real

[The Mikado]

For the love of God, Torie, sanitize your links.

Anyway, I don't think Tucker Carlson wants to be President.

My best guess is Tucker knows just how valuable a brand his name is. Tucker isn't "going to" Newsmax or some smaller operation, BUT Tucker may very well go to OANN (much smaller than Newsmax with shakier financials) and just say "I'm buying this: we're the Tucker News Network now, and TNN is going to be a Tucker-branded lifestyle GOP brand. Ball tanning and anti-woke beer in the daytime, Father Coughlin's Power Hour at primetime."

Tucker isn't going to be a host somewhere, but he might well just take one of these things over and do it himself. He knows the secret sauce better than most.

[Torie]

Unsanatized links do not seem to soil the screen  of the perp. How unjust is that? Anyway, I apologize.

[The Mikado]

ALREADY IN:

Trump
Ramaswamy
Haley
Hutchinson
Scott
Elder


MAYBE:

Pence
DeSantis
Sununu
Christie
Bolton
Suarez
Burgum


Updating on the news that Youngkin is 100% out. Demoted Pence and DeSantis from "Obviously Running" to "Maybe" because it suddenly doesn't seem as obvious.

[Benjamin Frank]

Has a former Vice President ever run before against his President when they had run on the same ticket? (I.E not including when the second place finisher in the electoral college became the Vice President.)

I know that Edmond Muskie ran against Hubert Humphrey in 1972.

[Oppo]

Has a former Vice President ever run before against his President when they had run on the same ticket? (I.E not including when the second place finisher in the electoral college became the Vice President.)

I know that Edmond Muskie ran against Hubert Humphrey in 1972.

John Nance Garner in 1940

[The Mikado]

Has a former Vice President ever run before against his President when they had run on the same ticket? (I.E not including when the second place finisher in the electoral college became the Vice President.)

100% sure the answer's no if you're not including Adams vs Jefferson as stated but how many opportunities for that would there even be? Like, the only other Presidents to seek a return to office after leaving are Grant, Cleveland (successfully), Teddy Roosevelt, and arguably Herbert Hoover (whose 1940 bid fizzled so quickly it barely even counts). Maybe throw Gerald Ford in there as someone who pondered a comeback but never bit. None of them had a former VP run against them for the nomination.

[JMT]

https://twitter.com/garygrumbach/status/1653235464520839168?s=46&t=-r8JGlJno...

[Benjamin Frank]

https://twitter.com/garygrumbach/status/1653235464520839168?s=46&t=-r8JGlJno...

Youngkin's people clarified it to say that he wouldn't run for President in 2023. Realistically the only way Youngkin could run is if there is a deadlock and he can come in as some kind of compromise candidate sort of like, I guess, Michael Bloomberg tried to do on the Democratic side in 2020.

Or, if there was a clear frontrunner but who didn't have majority delegate support and was facing 'buyer's remorse' kind of like when Jerry Brown entered late against Jimmy Carter in 1976.

I don't like to make predictions, but I don't think either scenario is going to happen.

[Benjamin Frank]

Has anybody heard any possiblility of a single elected Democratic official who might run in the Democratic primary against Biden in 2024? Like a city councilor or something. There are the three little known former Republican officeholders running for the Presidential nomination.

[NewYorkExpress]

Has anybody heard any possiblility of a single elected Democratic official who might run in the Democratic primary against Biden in 2024? Like a city councilor or something. There are the three little known former Republican officeholders running for the Presidential nomination.

Someone like John Lynch (the former Governor of New Hampshire) might. He's got enough free time on his hands, and an axe to grind with the DNC because New Hampshire won't be going first.

[Not Me, Us]

No serious Democrat would ever run against Biden. It's electoral suicide, they would stand no chance.

[JMT]

https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/1654534676818677764?s=46&t=-r8JGlJno4t...

[NewYorkExpress]

Liz Cheney has this ad running in New Hampshire.

[AltWorlder]

Our boy is playing coy

https://twitter.com/FrancisSuarez/status/1657110807132491782

[emailking]

Ron DeSantis is on the verge of announcing his presidential bid
Expect to see paperwork filed in the next 15 days.

The clock is about to begin ticking down on Ron DeSantis’ presidential announcement.

On Monday, the Florida governor’s political operation is set to move into its new base of operations, which will trigger disclosure requirements with federal officials.

The DeSantis political operation is currently housed in downtown Tallahassee, but staffers are set to make a short move to a new downtown location that will serve as a more official campaign home, according to a source familiar with the campaign’s plans, as well as another person knowledgeable about the move.

That move will require the not-yet-filed campaign to spend more than $5,000 and, under Federal Election Commission guidelines, when someone running for federal office spends more than $5,000, they are required to register, file financial reports and designate a principal campaign committee.

Functionally, the office move will require DeSantis to file paperwork with federal election officials within 15 days, thus acknowledging publicly for the first time that he is running for president.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-verge-announcing-presidential-bid-rcna84256

[JMT]

https://twitter.com/acosta/status/1657879231500632064?s=46&t=-r8JGlJno4tbLkn...