Opinion Today: The Democrats to pay attention to for 2024

(And a few you can ignore.) 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Bush in 2002. Yet politics stops for nothing, and it’s onto the next thing and the next election. And 2024 is already looming. Will President Biden run again? Even with the Democrats’ midterm surprise, as Bruni writes in an essay, “the noise” about whether he will run for a second term “won’t go away.” “There’s the matter of Biden’s age,” he writes, “and there’s the matter of Biden’s energy.” [In his essay](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRlT3ttP0TbaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi8xMS8xMC9vcGluaW9uL2JpZGVuLWRlbW9jcmF0LTIwMjQuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zOSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDIyMTExMCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD03NzEyOSZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xMTI3MTYmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmNjbfZsY-otLWFSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~), he takes up this question: If Biden does not run, then which Democrat will or should? Bruni’s list includes familiar names like Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg; governors like Gretchen Whitmer and Roy Cooper; senators like Sherrod Brown and Amy Klobuchar; and many others, including some whom Democrats should stop thinking of as potential candidates (Michelle Obama!). In an email exchange, Bruni told me how he put the list together. “I talked to many people who think hard and constantly about this stuff and have historical memories that help them define the parameters of possibility,” he said, and he “put that wisdom” through the prism of his own experience and knowledge. He added, “This list is as flawed as I am!” One group you won’t find on the list: celebrities. This is not the Republican Party. “I was less troubled by ‘where are the movie stars?’ than by ‘where are the plutocrats?’ — à la Mike Bloomberg, à la Howard Schultz, who, you may recall, had a frothy few seconds there a while back,” Bruni told me. It’s a fascinating list, and Democrats will find lots to like, argue with and mull over as they emerge from the midterms and cast their eyes to 2024. [Read the full essay here](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRlT3ttP0TbaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi8xMS8xMC9vcGluaW9uL2JpZGVuLWRlbW9jcmF0LTIwMjQuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zOSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDIyMTExMCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD03NzEyOSZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xMTI3MTYmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmNjbfZsY-otLWFSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~). 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