Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., has refused to withdraw from her re-election bid. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
"I don’t consider myself to be running against Congresswoman Norton," he added. "If Congresswoman Norton was running a campaign that I thought would win, you know, I wouldn’t be here. But that’s not where we’re at right now."
Many prominent House Democrats have announced they won't seek re-election in 2026, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. and Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y. Norton, 88, has refused to follow suit, however, despite prominent Democrats calling on her to bow out.
Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat from the District of Colombia, during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Norton has also faced wider criticism about her fitness for office, and her staff repeatedly walked back her public statements about intending to run for office again in 2026.
She was also the victim of a credit card scam in late 2025, where she was convinced to turn over her card information to men posing as HVAC cleaners outside her home. Her office said Norton employs a "home manager" who schedules cleaning and other maintenance, and Norton assumed there had been a cleaning scheduled.
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