AK-AL: Will Don Young ever retire or lose?

[Greedo punched first]

Will he ever retire or be unseated?

[SnowLabrador]

The only way Young is leaving that seat is in a body bag.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

He retires by 2024 (or 2028 if he somehow makes a successful bid for the Senate in 2022). Only when they're running in their 90s should you mark them down as an aspiring Byrd.

[Upstater]

He retires by 2024 (or 2028 if he somehow makes a successful bid for the Senate in 2022). Only when they're running in their 90s should you mark them down as an aspiring Byrd.

I doubt he will have a chance of beating Murkowski.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

He retires by 2024 (or 2028 if he somehow makes a successful bid for the Senate in 2022). Only when they're running in their 90s should you mark them down as an aspiring Byrd.

I doubt he will have a chance of beating Murkowski.

I also doubt it, though she might retire. She hasn't run for reelection in a post-Trump environment before and may have little appetite to do so.

[Upstater]

He retires by 2024 (or 2028 if he somehow makes a successful bid for the Senate in 2022). Only when they're running in their 90s should you mark them down as an aspiring Byrd.

I doubt he will have a chance of beating Murkowski.

I also doubt it, though she might retire. She hasn't run for reelection in a post-Trump environment before and may have little appetite to do so.

2022 may very well be another Trump midterm.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

He retires by 2024 (or 2028 if he somehow makes a successful bid for the Senate in 2022). Only when they're running in their 90s should you mark them down as an aspiring Byrd.

I doubt he will have a chance of beating Murkowski.

I also doubt it, though she might retire. She hasn't run for reelection in a post-Trump environment before and may have little appetite to do so.

2022 may very well be another Trump midterm.

I meant post-election of Trump, not post-Trump presidency. I expect Trumpism won't just go away by 2022, and my speculation was that she might not feel enthusiastic about politicking in that kind of Republican Party, especially if another primary challenge looms.

[Greedo punched first]

Will Joe Miller run in 2022 against Young or Murkowski?

[Joe Republic]

He retires by 2024 (or 2028 if he somehow makes a successful bid for the Senate in 2022). Only when they're running in their 90s should you mark them down as an aspiring Byrd.

Young has had plenty of opportunities to run for Senate.  He's not going to accumulate nearly fifty years of seniority in the House and then suddenly run to become a freshman senator in his late 80s or early 90s.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

He retires by 2024 (or 2028 if he somehow makes a successful bid for the Senate in 2022). Only when they're running in their 90s should you mark them down as an aspiring Byrd.

Young has had plenty of opportunities to run for Senate.  He's not going to accumulate nearly fifty years of seniority in the House and then suddenly run to become a freshman senator in his late 80s or early 90s.

I highly doubt it, but the Republicans don't put too much stock by House Seniority and Young has never been a wholly rational agent. Plus, it would probably pad his congressional career by 4 years -  just reiterating here that it tends to be significantly harder to run in his 90s.

[Greedo punched first]

If Young loses this year, does he run in 2022?

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

He will retire

[zoz]

Every couple of cycles there's talk of "this time Don Young could lose" but it never happens. He either retires within the next few years or passes away in office imo

[Greedo punched first]

Let me guess, he probably never retires and dies in office.

[Calthrina950]

The only way Young is leaving that seat is in a body bag.

This. Interestingly enough, no Dean of the House has died in office since Wright Patman (D-Texas) in March 1976. Young will probably be the first Dean in more than four decades with such an odious distinction.

[Flyersfan232]

The only way Young is leaving that seat is in a body bag.

Watch be the day before a election and he wins

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

The only way Young is leaving that seat is in a body bag.

This. Interestingly enough, no Dean of the House has died in office since Wright Patman (D-Texas) in March 1976. Young will probably be the first Dean in more than four decades with such an odious distinction.

There's nothing odious about it.

[Calthrina950]

The only way Young is leaving that seat is in a body bag.

This. Interestingly enough, no Dean of the House has died in office since Wright Patman (D-Texas) in March 1976. Young will probably be the first Dean in more than four decades with such an odious distinction.

There's nothing odious about it.

Odious from the perspective of the Dean dying in office, when they may have had the opportunity to retire years before. Of course, death can come to us at any time, but it's still important to note the circumstances.

[Pouring Rain and Blairing Music]

The only way Young is leaving that seat is in a body bag.

Watch be the day before a election and he wins

That would be rather fitting given that he originally won a special to replace Nick Begich, who had beaten Young despite having died in a plane crash a few weeks before the election.

[Epaminondas]

I expect 2020 will be his last campaign.

The only way Young is leaving that seat is in a body bag.

This. Interestingly enough, no Dean of the House has died in office since Wright Patman (D-Texas) in March 1976. Young will probably be the first Dean in more than four decades with such an odious distinction.

There's nothing odious about it.

He probably means grim. Or bleak, dreary, dismal.

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

Only way he leaves Congress is in a hearse.