Just hours after the news broke that Mitch Landrieu would manage the administration’s new infrastructure program, the first 2024 presidential speculation emerged about the former New Orleans mayor.
“Add another name to the 2024 roster,” tweeted The New York Times’ Jonathan Martin, adding that an unnamed Democrat had texted him, “Mitch succeeds at this job and he becomes a strong player down the field.”
That speculation was hardly unique.
