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.

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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 on

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