Taking the hint that the party’s gerontocracy problem requires less talk and more doing something about it – specifically from the people positioned to do something about it before they die in office and pad the GOP’s majority as no fewer than three Dem did this year – Manhattan Congressman Jerry Nadler, 78, tells the New York Times he’s hanging it up and won’t run again in 2026.
“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 said, adding that a younger successor “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more,” than he could in an 18th term in the House of Representatives.