House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is having a rough go of it these days. Since taking over the role in 2023, he has witnessed the loss of the House and the Oval Office and the failure to flip the Senate. He tried to protest against Republicans on the steps of the Capitol in April with his buddy Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), but no one cared and virtually no one showed up. On Thursday, he delivered a mind-numbing eight-hour speech to delay the vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill, only to watch the measure pass soon after he was done droning.
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His leadership has many Dems wishing ol’ Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) would come back and take the job.
Jeffries’ latest dilemma is how to deal with socialist darling and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who beat former disgraced Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a