Eleanor Holmes Norton — the 88-year-old nonvoting delegate for Washington, D.C., in the House of Representatives — is facing calls from a prominent Democratic strategist to make 2026 her last full year in Congress.
Former Democratic National Committee interim chair Donna Brazile, who was Norton’s campaign manager when she was first elected in 1990 and her chief of staff for eight years, wrote in an opinion piece in The Washington Post on Monday that she should not seek re-election during the midterms.
Brazile, 65, called Norton her “dear friend for 44 years,” her “role model and mentor” and “a second mother.” “But Norton, a Democrat, is now 88 — the oldest current House member. She is no longer the dynamo she once was, at a time when D.C. needs the kind of energetic representation in Congress she provided for decades,” Brazile wrote.
This feels like a repeat of what Democrats did recently with 90-year-old Senator Dianne Feinstein: keeping an aging establishment figure in office simply because she was a guaranteed vote who kept corporate donors satisfied. And we all saw how that ended. Now, with Norton clearly showing signs of dementia, it’s the same story again: her handlers refusing to let her step down, and Democrats still failing to recognize their growing age problem.
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