After Democrats’ historic victory, why is this how Hakeem Jeffries is responding?
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries isn’t interested in seeking impeachment charges against President Donald Trump.
Speaking on MS NOW’s Morning Joe Wednesday, Jeffries laid out his priorities for his party’s newfound leadership in the House of Representatives.
“The American people don’t want us to get even. They want us to get things done on their behalf because life is way too expensive,” Jeffries said.
We should start with Hakeem Jeffries
I don’t think Jeffries needs to be impeached. I think the Democratic Party to act like their name suggests and ask the voters. They are allowed to choose their own leaders any way they want, right? So instead of having a closed meeting secret vote to keep the same guy as last time, hold a non-binding referendum and mail special ballots out to every registered Democrat. Everyone can rank their top 10 and bottom 10 choices for the next Speaker of the House. They don’t have to commit to going with the popular winner but they do have to publish the results, and it would look bad on the leadership if they don’t pick someone in the overall top 3.
Introduce democracy into the Democratic Party? Crazy talk.
They kinda did. There has literally just been an election. Jeffries should have been primaried in it, but that never happened.
And now because of this one district we’re all stuck with Jeffries. Which is the issue being talked about by uen3.
So no “kinda” and no “did”. A district got to put their two cents in for him, and that’s it.
With the method proposed, every other party member would get a chance to put their two cents in as well.
You’re not automatically stuck with Jeffries. It’s not like the winner of that district automatically becomes speaker. The House is going to vote on it, and they could vote for someone else.
Although I think there might be a risk of something really weird happening: I’m not certain about the rules, but if the entire house votes on this, it would be possible for Jeffries to become speaker with the support of a minority of Democrats and all Republicans who decide to vote for him in order to prevent a more progressive speaker. I have no idea if that’s possible or likely, but it would be terrible for his credibility if it happened.
All I was saying is your statement was wrong. The only people who could gate Jeffries, didn’t. And nobody else has had a chance to say otherwise, so there was no “kinda vote” in the same scope OP of this thread was talking about. Which makes OP’s suggestion a valid one, imo.
This.