Top Democrats jockey for 2024 presidential campaign position

He also plans to meet with Starbucks workers in the city to show solidarity in a store-by-store unionization push.And, more than two years out from the 2024 election, the iconoclastic Sanders is having private discussions about the possibility of making a third bid for the Oval Office — with the caveat that he would do so only if President Joe Biden reverses course and chooses not to run — according to people close to him.Faiz Shakir, who managed Sanders' 2020 campaign, said promoting progressive candidates and causes can be an end in itself or a launching pad for the next race: "You can do both," he said in an interview.All of that might be unremarkable if Sanders were shadow boxing himself against the backdrop of an inevitable Biden re-election bid.Instead, he is just the most openly ambitious of an emerging field of Democratic hopefuls who are positioning themselves to run if Biden doesn't, more than a dozen Democratic insiders said in interviews. Some Democratic leaders believe they could do a better job fighting for the party's priorities, and they are starting to voice that opinion publicly.That raises the possibility — although no prospective candidate has said it — that Biden could face credible opposition in a primary. "It looks like Warren, Newsom and some of the others are looking to run down Biden and the party, which is unhelpful," he said. "If Biden decides he’ll run again in 2024, then all you’re doing is you’re advancing the ball toward ’28.”In mid-April, Warren, who ran in 2020, wrote a New York Times column imploring her party to push harder for progressive change now."If we fail to use the months remaining before the elections to deliver on more of our agenda, Democrats are headed toward big losses in the midterms," Warren warned.Three days later, Shakir, Sanders’ 2020 campaign manager, circulated a memo advising about 20 allies of Sanders' plans for the midterms and the possibility that he would run in 2024 if Biden doesn't.