Sanders Says Likelihood of Another Presidential Run Is ‘Very, Very Slim’

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President Donald Trump charged on Sunday that “Obamagate” was “the biggest political crime in American history, by far!” Trump took to Twitter, his favored social media platform, to make the statement. He added on Monday: “OBAMAGATE makes Watergate look small time!” The Office of Barack and Michelle Obama didn’t respond to a request for comment on Trump’s remarks. The term Trump used first started to trend in March 2017 after the newly elected president wrote on Twitter that former President Barack Obama had had his “wires tapped.” According to recently released documents, Obama was aware of details from wiretapped phone calls between Trump’s then-national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Russia’s ambassador to the United States in late 2016 or early 2017. Flynn was later accused of lying to…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) this week said the odds of him launching a third presidential campaign are “very, very slim” after suspending his current campaign last month and endorsing Joe Biden.

Speaking at a live-streamed Washington Post event on May 11, Sanders was asked whether he’d consider a third consecutive presidential run in 2024, but confirmed the chances of it happening are highly unlikely.

“I think the likelihood is very, very slim at that,” Sanders replied. “I think next time around you’re going to see another candidate carrying the progressive banner. I think it’s very, very unlikely that I’ll ever be running for president again.”

Sanders, who describes himself as a Democratic socialist, first ran for president in 2016. Despite entering the contest with far less recognition than former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he gained a lot of support from young voters.

Sanders Says Likelihood of Another Presidential Run Is ‘Very, Very Slim’

He had initially been the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in February 2020 after winning the New Hampshire primary and gaining a landslide victory in the Nevada caucuses, but after Biden won a series of sweeping victories, the senator announced that he was suspending his campaign and acknowledged that “the path toward victory is virtually impossible.”

At 78, Sanders was the oldest candidate running for the presidential nomination this cycle, and, if he had eventually run, would have been the oldest president ever elected.

Elsewhere during the interview on Monday, Sanders said he hopes Biden will look to the Congressional Progressive Caucus to staff key members of his cabinet, if he is elected.

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Illinois Governor Enters Quarantine After Staffer Tests Positive for COVID-19

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is in isolation at home after one of his senior staff members tested positive for COVID-19. Pritzker was tested twice, once last week and again on Sunday, and tested negative both times, his office said on Monday. But he and all other staff members who interacted with the staffer who tested positive will follow Illinois Department of Public Health guidance and work from home for a period of time. The governor’s office will undergo deep cleaning. When the department deems it appropriate, Pritzker, a Democrat, and staffers will return to the office. The staffer who tested positive didn’t show any symptoms of the聽the聽CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease, Pritzker’s office said. Staff members have been screened for temperature before entering the office,…