US EditionFormer Senior Aide to Holmes Norton Launches Bid for Her Seat
Trent Holbrook joins a competitive race for the D.C. delegate seat amid concerns over Eleanor Holmes Norton’s health and campaign viability, with Norton’s campaign nearly $90,000 in debt.
- On Tuesday, Trent Holbrook, former senior legislative counsel to Eleanor Holmes Norton, announced he plans a formal campaign launch Wednesday after leaving Norton’s office Monday.
- Concerns over campaign solvency and health have grown as Norton’s reelection committee is $90K in debt, and an internal police report last year cited early dementia, NOTUS reported.
- Institutional ties matter: Holbrook, who took a Georgetown Law class taught by Norton and rose in her office, is launching a campaign, joining more than a dozen candidates.
- Holbrook told CNN he had a good conversation with Norton shortly before the holiday and outlined priorities including DC statehood, federal employee protections and DC home rule, while Norton’s campaign did not respond.
- Norton’s long tenure frames succession debates as she has represented D.C. since 1991 and is one of two to serve as delegate, with aides like Walkinshaw succeeding bosses amid term limits debates next year.
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Longtime Staffer Is Launching a Bid to Replace 88-Year-Old Eleanor Holmes Norton
Mark Schiefelbein/APA top staffer to Eleanor Holmes Norton, the U.S. House delegate for Washington, D.C., says he is launching a campaign for his former boss’s seat this week after the 88-year-old has spent months making contradictory statements about whether she plans to seek reelection.“I don’t consider myself to be running against Congresswoman Norton,” Trent Holbrook, who recently left his job as Norton’s senior legislative counsel, said in …
Former senior aide to Holmes Norton launches bid for her seat
A former senior aide to Washington, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) is launching a bid to be the city’s next nonvoting member in Congress as Norton faces growing pressure to drop her reelection bid in the House. Trent Holbrook, who’s listed as senior legislative counsel for Norton, filed paperwork on Monday to run for Norton’s seat. He confirmed…
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