After missing dozens of congressional votes this spring and while waving off resignation rumors, Miami Rep. Frederica Wilson is staring down one of the most pivotal decisions of her career: step down and pass the baton to a Democratic hopeful or hold on and weather another Congress under Donald Trump.
The possibility of Wilson’s retirement has sparked a candidate mad dash in a state where shots at the few safe Democratic federal seats are rare, and incumbents stay in them for decades. Wilson, 83, has been weighing retirement, people close to her told the Miami Herald. She has not announced a final decision, and publicly denied reports that she had told people she wasn’t running again.
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