Orrin Hatch and Dianne Feinstein will be 84 and 85 years old, respectively, on Election Day 2018. If that thought alone isn’t tiring enough, here’s another way of looking at it: If they run and win, both would eclipse the 90-year mark by the end of their term.
But if the serenity of Utah or the coastal beauty of California is beckoning either senator into retirement, neither is willing to publicly entertain it just yet.
“Age doesn’t seem to be a factor,” said Hatch, the Utah Republican who is now in the presidential line of succession and heads the powerful Senate Finance Committee. “I’m tough and strong and I have the usual infirmities that anybody my age has but nothing stops me.”
Hatch, who said after his last reelection in 2012 that this would be his final term, added, “I don’t think I’m ready to give up the ghost yet.”
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