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

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Hawley has apparently been planning to run for president in 2024 for decades now:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/25/josh-hawley-school-yearbook-2024-republican-run

Josh Hawley, the Republican from Missouri who faces calls for expulsion from the Senate over his support of Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn his election defeat, signed a friend’s eighth-grade yearbook “Josh Hawley, president 2024”.

The same yearbook named Hawley and the friend whose yearbook he signed among “future presidents”, the Kansas City Star reported.

Yeah, Jason Kander’s co-host on his podcast “Majority 54” went to college with Hawley and was pretty close to him personally, and apparently he styled himself as a future president even back then. This is a guy who’s actually been planning this for decades.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

"U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo’s rise on the national stage since she left Rhode Island is spurring speculation about her political future. But there’s at least one path she’s already willing to rule out."

“Not a no, but not a yes, either” is how she characterized her answer, describing herself as “really, really focused” on leading the Commerce Department.

WPRI reported but I can't share the link.

What rise on the national stage?

She shouldn’t even have been tapped for a cabinet position in the first place