D.C. delegate in Congress insists for second time she's running for re-election. Her office again says no decision yet.

WASHINGTON — Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington, D.C.'s nonvoting delegate successful the House, told NBC News connected Wednesday she was going to question different word successful Congress.

A abbreviated portion later, her bureau walked backmost the remarks.

It was the 2nd clip that's happened this month.

Speaking to NBC News connected Wednesday, Norton said, “Yeah, I’m gonna tally for re-election.”

A spokesperson for Norton aboriginal told Axios that "no determination has been made" astir seeking different term.

Norton's bureau did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

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The conflicting responses from Norton and her unit echo a akin proclamation earlier this month.

On June 10, Norton said she planned to question re-election, telling NBC News, "I'm going to run." She besides brushed disconnected critics who raised questions astir whether she should question different term, saying, "I don't cognize wherefore anybody would adjacent inquire me."

Hours later, Norton's bureau said she wanted to tally again but was "in conversations with her family, friends, and closest advisors to determine what’s best.”

The questions implicit Norton’s aboriginal travel astatine a pivotal infinitesimal connected 2 fronts. The Republican-led Congress is seeking to enforce its will connected Washington by repealing section laws connected policing and voting, and immoderate metropolis leaders person questioned whether Norton is the right idiosyncratic to pb the pushback. Meanwhile, Democrats are successful the midst of a reckoning implicit property and power aft President Joe Biden’s ill-fated effort to tally for re-election past twelvemonth and the deaths of 3 House Democrats successful bureau this year.

At 88, Norton is 1 of the oldest members of Congress.

A akin miscommunication implicit re-election plans took spot with Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who astatine the clip was past the longest-serving senator, and her unit aft a connection announced her retirement. Feinstein served successful the Senate until she died successful 2023 astatine property 90.

Norton has served successful the House since 1991. Before she was elected to Congress, President Jimmy Carter appointed her arsenic the archetypal pistillate to seat the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, successful 1977.

Sahil Kapur reported from Washington, Zoë Richards from New York.