(The hill) — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), one of the Senate’s most prominent progressives, says he likely won’t run for Senate again after his fourth term ends in 2030.
Asked in an interview with Politico whether this would be his last term in Congress, Sanders replied: “I’m 83 now. I’ll be 89 when I get out of here. You can do the calculation. I don’t know, but I would probably assume yes.”
Sanders won re-election last month, defeating Republican Gerald Malloy 63 percent to 32 percent.
Sanders has served in Congress since 1991 and spent 16 years in the House of Representatives before being elected to the Senate in 2006.
He placed second in the 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primaries and is currently chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Sanders, who caucuses with Senate Democrats, recently criticized the Democratic Party for not putting enough emphasis on fundamental economic issues.
He called on Vice President Kamala Harris during this year’s presidential campaign to talk more about economic inequality in the United States, saying Democrats had “abandoned” the working class after their defeat.
“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party that has failed the working class is finding that the working class has failed them,” Sanders said in a statement released after Election Day.
