“Joe Biden, 83, is largely out of the conversation. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, 86, is retiring this Congress, as is Rep. Steny Hoyer, 87,” the Wall Street Journal reports.“Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is 84. And the independent who caucuses with the Democrats looks to have more influence over the party than he ever has before.”“The emergence of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a Democratic kingmaker is right out of Sanders’s left-wing populist playbook. And his influence isn’t just confined to New York. Look at the Michigan Senate primary. Sanders has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed in the primary, and polls have him up comfortably over two other Democrats.”