Muriel Bowser: “It's time for me to pass the baton on to the next set of leaders who are going to take our city to the next level”

With a grateful heart, I am announcing that I will not seek a fourth term.

We don’t live in a dirty city. We are not 700,000 scumbags and punks. And we don’t have neighborhoods that should be bulldozed.

We started this year with a new president who was an avowed critic of the district, and we had to reset that relationship.

... the difference between this … 20-day period of this federal surge and last year represents an 87% reduction in carjackings in Washington, DC … this surge has been important to us for that reason.