[T]he political news website Politico reported Friday that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders met with advisors last weekend to begin planning a 2020 run for president.
There is no official word about whether Sanders is running and the senator’s campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, insists he is focusing on “retaking the House and the Senate.”
While sources interviewed by Politico said the meeting held last Saturday in Washington was a regular skull session with aides, “the gathering was larger than the rest,” the website reported, and there was a conversation about a 2020 race for president.
Levi Sanders, the senator’s son, this week tweeted that “Bernard is seriously contemplating a run in 2020 and I don’t mean a jog.”
Meanwhile, Sanders, 76, faces a more immediate, if smaller, hurdle. Sanders is up for re-election for his Senate seat in 2018. No serious contenders have come forward to run against the popular two-term junior senator and he is expected to easily win re-election.
