Rogan presses Sanders on presidential run in 2028
'Are you going to run for president again?' Rogan asked during a Tuesday episode.
Sanders, who launched White House campaign's in 2016 and 2020 respectively, responded by noting his age.
'I am 83 years of age. I'm not sure the American people would be too enthusiastic..,' he told Rogan, who pushed back.
'You're still very with it… I mean, you're a couple of years older than [former President] Biden. Think of that. You can be off a lot worse,' the famed podcaster told Sanders.
The Vermont lawmaker chuckled and brushed off the comment while looking down. Sanders has been vocally critical of the Trump administration and backed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) as an emerging Democratic leader in recent months.
'She looked around her, and she saw a society that was fundamentally unjust and, in many ways, ugly to the people in the community in which she lived in New York City,' Sanders said of Ocasio-Cortez who's been referred to as a White House contender for 2028.
'She stood up and took on one of the most powerful people in the House of Representatives, and she started with almost no money against the guy who had unlimited funds, and she beat him,' he added.
The two recently toured the country on their 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour in opposition to the Trump administration's policies.
'We are building a political movement which is taking on the billionaire class, taking on the right-wing extremist Republican Party, and taking on a corporate-dominated Democratic Party whose leadership is wedded to maintaining the status quo,' Sanders said in a video promoting the cross-country venture.
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