She's 86 now and the next time she'll be up for reelection is in 2024. There's a good chance she won't be around long enough to ever lose reelection.

on the other hand the late Senator Strom Thormond didn't leave office until he retired at age 100.

I know this is a day old now, but Pelosi was born March 26, 1940, so she is 80 (not 86).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi

This discussion is about Dianne Feinstein, not Pelosi.

LOL. Sorry about that. Not sure where I got my wires crossed there. Must have gotten distracted somewhere in the middle while looking it up. I also didn't realize that Feinstein was that old.

> There's a good chance she won't be around long enough to ever lose reelection.

No need to be so negative. Isn't it nicer to say, "There's a good chance that she won't win reelection*."?

I think that phrasing is more ambiguous, not nicer (nor meaner.) "Won't win reelection" is phrasing that's compatible with a 'loses the election' scenario, which I consider implausible (If she's still alive in 2024, she'll undoubtedly win.) Adding ambiguity to my comment doesn't make it nicer; it only increases the chance that I might be misunderstood.