Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., will succeed longtime House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. Once Pelosi hands over the speaker’s gavel to Republicans in January, Jeffries will serve as minority leader.
Pelosi has led the Democratic caucus since 2003. Jeffries’ appointment makes him the first Black party leader in Congress.
Per CNN:
House Democrats met behind closed doors Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill to make their decision.
Jeffries ran unopposed as leader, with Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark, current assistant speaker, running as whip and California Rep. Peter Aguilar, previously vice chair of the caucus, and was expected to win the spot to lead the House Democratic caucus.
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At 52, Jeffries will represent a generational change from the current triumvirate of House Democratic leaders, who are three decades older than him. He became the chairman of the Democratic caucus in 2019, making him the youngest member serving in leadership.
His rise in leadership comes after Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn announced they would be stepping down from their current leadership positions. Clyburn is expected to become assistant leader in the new Congress.
Another anti American socialist from NY. to lead the communist democrat party on capitol hill following
comrade Piglosi .
Don’t we have any normal people left, like Jones or Smith, instead of a Hakkiem???
Edie – it doesn’t matter what the name is – a hard core leftist is still (and always will be) a hard core leftist. They don’t come much further left than this guy.
An official replacement for Nutzi Psychosi?
Sorry, but the Devil is extremely busy. The Democrats will have to settle for less.
Pelosi 2.0??
It should be that ‘ Required Testing ‘ for ‘weak liberalista blood’ And/Or Nepotist Tendencies be done on any House Leaders & I do Not care if Red or Blue as we have a party swap attitude present in both worlds .
Reading other’s Comments , I wonder about the Practicing Nepotists ; Is Hakeem Nancy’s love child ? Did they go too far in raising this specter of Nazis Experiments with genes ?