“This has been a journey, but it’s time. It’s time. And I know all of you are wondering, ‘What is the congresswoman going to do?’ Well, the congresswoman is going to not seek another term,” Wilson said, according to NBC News.

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She had first announced her plans in an interview with the Miami Herald that published on Friday.

Wilson is the 60th House lawmaker this cycle to announce they are either retiring from Congress or running for higher office.

At 83, Wilson had been part of a cadre of senior lawmakers in their 80s and 90s who had said they were running for another term in 2026 — defying voters who are clamoring for generational change among the nation’s leaders.

But Wilson recently underwent eye surgery and had missed a month’s worth of votes this spring as she recovered. In the GOP’s redistricting push this month, her Miami congressional district lost its coastal areas but remained deep blue, meaning she almost certainly would have been re-elected to a ninth term.

She told the Miami Herald that she strategically waited to announce her retirement until after the new maps were established so that her district would not be targeted.

Wilson said days ago that a report about her retirement was a “crazy rumor.”

“@MarcACaputo and I reported Saturday that she was calling local allies to give them the news,” Axios Congress reporter Andrew Solender said.

“She denied it, calling it a ‘crazy crazy rumor’ that made her ‘almost distraught,'” he added.

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