Colorado Senator Michael Bennet's Facebook advertising in April continues to suggest he will announce a bid for president in a Democratic field that already has 21 other candidates.
One such ad that focuses on "[finishing] what Obamacare started and work to improve our health care system," was targeted at 30 states, most of which have primary or caucus votes at key times on the calendar, like Super Tuesday or the cluster of other votes which come on the two Tuesdays immediately after.
Some of the states that were excluded do not yet have a permanent date set for their vote, such as Alaska, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming.
The ad also excludes the home states of other presidential contenders such as Minnesota (Amy Klobuchar, D.) and Vermont (Bernie Sanders, I.). Likewise, Joe Biden's (D.) home state of Delaware, which has its primary in late April, was also not targeted, but the ad is running in New Jersey and Massachusetts, both of which have home-grown candidates.
Bennet underwent successful surgery for prostate cancer in mid-April, and said before that if his health recovered, his presidential run was likely to go forward.
"I feel really lucky. It was caught early and this is a really treatable form of cancer and we have insurance. I think I'm going to be fine. I hope I will because I really want to have the opportunity to run in 2020," he said in April.
The senator's social media ads also show he is making an appeal in favor of abolishing the Electoral College, calling it "outdated."
That position cuts a sharp contrast to other statements and advertisements in which he has generally advocated in favor of maintaining other long-standing institutions and procedures, some of which are currently being tested by the current crop of Democrats.
When asked about the rising tide of sentiment among other presidential candidates who were open to the idea of "packing" the Supreme Court, Bennet became "animated" in a New Hampshire interview with the Washington Post.
"[The Founders] believed we would have disagreement, that this was an essential part of living in a democracy, and out of that disagreement would come much more durable and imaginative solutions than any king or tyrant could ever think of," he said.
"That's what those mechanisms are for, and we're in the process of breaking all of those mechanisms. We should think long and hard about whether or not we want to destroy all that, whether we think that what we should do is live in a world where they have their version of one-party rule for a while and then we substitute it with our version of one-party rule. To me, that seems like a really bad answer."
Additionally, in another ad which ran in February he said, "I regret my vote to lower the 60 vote threshold for judges. This is doing lasting damage to the Supreme Court."
Similar ads were run in March, but those removed any notion of personal culpability Bennet shouldered in a 2013 vote to remove the filibuster on judicial nominations when Democrats held the Senate majority.
Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper, who was something of a political sponsor to Bennet in the early part of his political career, has struggled to gain traction in the crowded field currently dominated by Biden and Sanders. Both Hickenlooper and Bennet are shying away from the hard progressive ideas and are trying to cut profiles of being consensus-building moderates, although Bennet has recently pushed back on the "centrist" label.
Requests for comment from Sen. Bennet's office were not returned.
UPDATE 4:46 p.m.: Colorado Public Radio now reports that "multiple sources" close to Bennet are saying the senator has told friends he will declare a presidential bid.