Former Bernie Sanders campaign manager: Biden will face progressive challenger in 2024
SalonJeff Weaver, who ran Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign and was a Sanders adviser in 2020, predicted that President Joe Biden will face a progressive primary challenger in 2024 amid growing disillusionment on the left over the Democratic agenda. And I think he'll probably get demolished in the midterms," Corbin Trent, co-founder of the progressive No Excuses PAC and former communications director for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told Politico, endorsing Weaver's prediction. When asked whether Biden will face a primary challenge from the left, one unidentified prominent progressive said, "Yes," Politico reported, adding that it would likely be "someone like Nina Turner or Marianne Williamson. "I think it's pretty unlikely that a serious progressive challenger would emerge if Biden stays in the race," Max Berger, a former top Warren campaign aide, told Politico.