'You can do the figuring': Bernie Sanders says this will 'probably' be his final term

Sen. Bernie Sanders won reelection last month and thinks this will be his last term, according to a report.

The fiery independent Vermont lawmaker, asked whether his fourth Senate term would be his last, told Politico: "I’m 83 now. I’ll be 89 when I get out of here. You can do the figuring. I don’t know, but I would assume, probably, yes."

Next month, Sanders will lose his chair at the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, but told the outlet he hopes to regain it if Democrats can retake control of the Senate.

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Sanders' remarks come after he let fly recriminations against the Democratic Party following their massive 2024 election losses, accusing Vice President Kamala Harris and the party at large of abandoning working-class voters.

"Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?" he said in a statement. "Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy which has so much economic and political power? Probably not."

Sanders shot to fame in 2016 when he lost the Democratic presidential primary to Hillary Clinton. In that race, he positioned himself as a democratic socialist who focused on combatting income inequality, campaign finance reform, Medicare-for-all, and free public college education. His campaign slogan at the time was: "A political revolution is coming."