Brazile urges Holmes-Norton not to run for re-election: 'We need a new champion'

Veteran Democratic strategist Donna Brazile on Monday urged Rep. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D-D.C.), the oldest member of the House, not to run for re-election.

“D.C. is under attack as at no other time in recent history, and we need a new champion to defend us,” Brazile, Holmes-Norton’s first campaign manager and former chief of staff, wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post.

The political pundit argued the congresswoman’s vibrant energy has faded.

“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.

“It’s in her best interest, and the interest of D.C., for her to serve her current term but then end her extraordinary service in Congress and not seek reelection next year,” she conti