2. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg
“He ran a good campaign in 2020 – we’ll repeat that he was very close to winning the first two contests – and would enter 2024 with more heft as a Cabinet secretary. Mostly, we’d expect a Biden-less race to be one of the most wide-open contests in recent memory. To the extent people don’t want Biden or Harris, he’s next in line just in terms of sheer plausibility,” the outlet reported.