Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) says he will not run another campaign for president in the 2024 cycle and will instead support President Joe Biden‘s re-election effort.
“I’m in to do what I can to make sure that the president is re-elected,” Sanders told the Associated Press on Tuesday.
Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, ran as a candidate in the Democratic Party’s last two presidential primary contests, giving Hillary Clinton a run for her money in 2016 right up until the convention and bowing out to Biden after he failed to gain similar momentum in 2020.
The senator publicly eschewed a third run in a row hours after Biden formally announced his re-election campaign.
“Running for president was a wonderful privilege,” Sanders said. “I enjoyed it very much and I hope we had some impact on the nature of American politics. But right now, my job is to do what I can as chairman of the (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) committee, to see Biden get reelected and…