Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) announced on Monday that he will not seek reelection in 2024 and will retire from the Senate at the end of his current term.

Carper, 76, made the news official during a press conference in Wilmington on Monday morning, where he ticked through the highlights of his career before saying that the time has come for him to retire from the upper chamber 

“After a good deal of prayer and introspection and more than a few heart to heart conversations, we decided I should do neither,” Carper said referring to a possible run next year and then “riding off into the sunset.” “But rather, I should run through the tape in the next 20 months and finish the important work that my staff and I have begun on a wide range of fronts.” 

DEVELOPING.