VT-SEN 2024: Bernout? (update: Bernin)

[Compuzled_One]

It's 2024, and it's unclear what will happen in Vermont-besides that someone socially liberal will win. Sanders has filed paperwork and has been raising and spending a lot of money already for some reason, but hasn't said anything (though he did wait until May in 2018 I believe) and is getting pretty old. A lot of prominent Democrats have urged him to run despite this.

I personally do to think Sanders will likely run again-I doubt someone would raise and spend 30 million to just not run. On the chance he decides to go away and retire, this should be safe Dem unless a socially liberal, fiscally conservative Republican gets nominated.

[Compuzled_One]

According to the Secretary of State's website, the filing deadline for this office is August 8. Thus, Sanders still has plenty of time to officially throw his hat into the ring again, and under current conditions, he would be the clear favorite to win again regardless of when he officially files to run.

The one for the Democratic primary (which Sanders has run in every time) is on May 30th, so it should be clear it two months, actually.

[Compuzled_One]

Whoops, sorry, didn't see it in the directory.


My title is clearly superior though

[Compuzled_One]

https://vtdigger.org/2024/04/05/fire-damages-sen-bernie-sanders-burlington-office/

The title of this thread has become an unfortunate pun: Yesterday, an unidentified arsonist set fire to Sanders' district office during work hours:

According to the Burlington Police Department, an unidentified man entered the vestibule outside Sanders’ third-floor office on Church Street at around 10:45 a.m. and sprayed “an apparent accelerant” on the door. The man lit the accelerant, prompting “a significant fire” to engulf Sanders’ office door and a portion of the vestibule, police said in a press release. The man then fled.

The blaze impeded staff members’ egress from the office, police said, “endangering their lives.” The building’s sprinkler system extinguished the fire. Firefighters and police officers evacuated Sanders’ office and those nearby.

CC: BTV crime watch

Yeesh.

[Compuzled_One]

Okay then, this is titanium I.

It IS weird how all those Sanders voters are going to vote for a libertarian governor on the same ballot.

[Compuzled_One]

Welp, let's just hope Vermont doesn't still have a Republican governor when he dies in office.

Bernie looks healthy enough, I don't think he'll die. That being said, this likely is his last term given he decided 24 days till the deadline, so I think he'll go into retirement in 2030 (and unless something insane happens, he ain't running for President again either).