Note to Democrats pondering a presidential run: The clock is already ticking
WASHINGTON - The presidential campaign clock may be ticking, but Bernie Sanders insists it doesn't rattle him.
"I am here in northern Vermont, and people just went through six months of an election, and they are not all that happy to get into another election," the newly re-elected Vermont senator said in his characteristically brusque manner when asked about deciding on a presidential bid.
"The media has pushed this country into never-ending campaigns. We can all take a deep breath."
That unworried attitude belies the intense pressure on Sanders and the rest of the horde of potential Democratic contenders to move swiftly. Privately, some of Sanders advisers have warned him that holding his fire much longer than a few weeks into the New Year could prove fatal to a 2020 bid.
At no time in recent history have Democrats forged into a presidential primary with
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