Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) announced he will not run for reelection after 34 years in Congress .

His announcement, which he made in an interview with the New York Times , follows a continuing trend of older Congress leaders stepping down after decades in power, spurred by a wider debate about the growing dominance of the elderly in politics.

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“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,” Nadler, 78, said, adding that a younger successor “can maybe do better, can m

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