REPORT: 88-year-old Democrat says she’ll seek re-election, but office backtracks

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From Axios: Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) keeps personally telling reporters she will run for re-election — only for her staff to walk it back.

Norton, who is facing calls to pass the torch at 88 years old, told an NBC News reporter on Wednesday that she had made up her mind: “Yeah, I’m gonna run for re-election.”

An hour-and-a-half-later, Norton’s spokesperson Sharon Nichols told Axios: “No decision has been made. She wants to run but is still discussing it with people closest to her.”

Norton has served as the D.C. delegate in the House for 34 years, since 1991.

Since Washington, D.C. is not a state, Norton is only a delegate. Therefore, she can can sit on and vote in Committees, introduce legislation, and participate in legislative debates, but she cannot vote on actual bills being considered in the House.

Earlier this month, on June 10, Norton told an NBC News reporter, “I’m gonna run. I don’t know why anybody would even ask me.”

Her office batted that one down as well, saying, “She wants to run again but she’s in conversations with her family, friends, and closest advisors to decide what’s best.”

Wednesday afternoon, Holmes claimed again she is running.

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