Hakeem Jeffries meets Jared Kushner privately as midterm pressure mounts
The people who want to replace Hakeem Jeffries will run into the same problem Matt Gaetz, Chip Roy, Matt Rosendale and Andy Biggs all ran into: They can't field a candidate who is acceptable to all factions of the House Democratic caucus.
Eric Michael Garcia34Again, the main obstacle is the Congressional Black Caucus. They aren't going to give up the chance for the first Black speaker, nobody is going to break ranks within the CBC and any other replacement would likely be more moderate and centrist than Jeffries. We saw this with Pelosi.
Andy Craig13Jeffries isn't a good leader and I particularly have little confidence in how he'll handle a constitutional crisis, but there is no serious possibility he won't get 218 votes. In part because of precisely that, it's not like there's any plausible alternative on offer.
Kapitalradio8Surely we can do better than someone making secret deals with men we should be investigating and prosecuting and who refuses to abolish the President’s secret police force
Nichole7Joe Neguse would be an excellent Speaker.
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli7Well not one IN CONGRESS. If we're libbing out we need to revisit the Stacey Abrams Theory.
The North American Leshy5He should resign and make room for someone else. Holding up democracy for his own vanity would be an extreme kind of selfishness.
