Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission indicating that he may pursue another independent bid for the U.S. Senate when his current term expires in 2030. Sanders, born in 1941, would be 89 years old at the time of the election.
Sanders filed an amended Statement of Candidacy with the Federal Election Commission on Monday. According to the document, he would run once more as an independent candidate. This is a shift from past remarks Sanders has made about running for another term, as he previously said that his current term would likely be his last.
Sanders has served in his current role as the U.S. Senator from Vermont for three terms, first winning election in 2006 as an independent candidate. Before that, he represented Vermont’s lone congressional district for eight terms—also as an independent—and was Mayor of Burlington for four terms.
Throughout most of his professional political life, Sanders has embraced the independent label in his campaigns. However, he sought the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in both 2016 and 2020 and previously ran for Vermont governor and the U.S. Senate multiple times in the 1970’s as a member of the Liberty Union Party, now called the Green Mountain Peace and Justice Party. His campaigns have also occasionally involved winning the primaries of other parties as a write-in candidate or receiving their support, such as the Democratic Party’s endorsement during his first U.S. Senate race—which he ultimately declined.
Some parasite are harder to remove than others. For some the reaper is the only one who will remove them.
By that time his brain will be as deep-fried as Biden’s – or Walz’s, for that matter.
I believe Strom Thurmond still holds the record, being re-elected to the senate a month shy of 94?