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Hakeem Jeffries announces run for speaker, promising ‘dramatic change’
Politico ^ | 11-04-2026 | Riley Rogerson 11/04/2026, 3:46pm ET

Posted on 11/04/2026 3:51:24 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is running for speaker, he announced in a letter to colleagues Wednesday.

Democrats have long considered the New Yorker — who has served two terms as minority leader — the heir apparent to longtime leader Nancy Pelosi. If he wins the Jan. 3 floor vote, he would become the House’s first Black speaker.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hakeem; hakeemjeffries

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He also vowed an aggressive oversight agenda that includes probes into Trump, his family, his administration and his corporate allies.
1 posted on 11/04/2026 3:51:24 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Of course he does, nothing says affordability like checking Trumps family bank accounts


2 posted on 11/04/2026 3:53:35 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Responsibility2nd

You must convert to islam to live in the US


3 posted on 11/04/2026 3:54:43 PM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Should be a no brainer but the DSA members will engage in a cat fight but there’s not enough of them.

What would be interesting is if 100% of the republicans unite behind the most radical who has their own candidate. . AOC can’t be both speaker and WH candidate.


4 posted on 11/04/2026 3:56:33 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: butlerweave

Maybe we’ll get lucky and see Abdul, Rashida, and Ilhan throw James Talareco off the roof of the Capitol Building.


5 posted on 11/04/2026 4:01:53 PM PST by Antihero101607
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To: Antihero101607

And that senator from Conn.


6 posted on 11/04/2026 4:05:17 PM PST by Old Yeller
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To: Responsibility2nd

Destroying America would be considered a “dramatic change”, but hardly unexpected.


7 posted on 11/04/2026 4:06:33 PM PST by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The only one that I’d be a little worried about if I was secretary of war, especially is the bombing of the drug boats. I know he said they’re all legit. Let’s just hope he has the receipts. that is definitely one area that they’re going to investigate.


8 posted on 11/04/2026 4:09:56 PM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Responsibility2nd

Jeffries is a putz. Bleah!


9 posted on 11/04/2026 4:16:32 PM PST by gildafarrell (To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The fate of the current demonrat leadership will be interesting. This could be a good time for the old “TEA” party and MAGA party to unite and start treating RINO’s like the DSA will treat “old guard” demonrats.


10 posted on 11/04/2026 4:20:26 PM PST by budj (Combat Vet, second of three generations.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
The Democrats will get more of their agenda without the White House than the Republicans did with the White House and both houses of Congress. (and the Supreme Court I might add).
11 posted on 11/04/2026 4:36:10 PM PST by fhayek
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To: gildafarrell

Soon to be second in line for POTUS yeah just a big Bleah


12 posted on 11/04/2026 4:47:36 PM PST by al baby (Sarcasm )
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To: Antihero101607

I draw the line at littering!


13 posted on 11/04/2026 4:48:02 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

He is black alright...


14 posted on 11/04/2026 5:14:36 PM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: Responsibility2nd

If the leftists have a brain... Jerry’s kid rides the pine.


15 posted on 11/04/2026 5:53:13 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't takin' no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: Responsibility2nd

He doesn’t have anywhere near enough votes to overturn a presidential veto.


16 posted on 11/04/2026 6:23:11 PM PST by NoLibZone (If people in NYC don't care why should we? No more red blood for blue cities.)
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I can’t figure out why people think that “Change” automatically means that things are going to get better ...for ANYONE.


17 posted on 11/04/2026 7:06:56 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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That’s why they add “hope”....


18 posted on 11/04/2026 7:15:07 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Shaping up to be a barn-burner of a State of the Union Address. These a-holes don’t seem the type to respect decorum.


19 posted on 11/04/2026 7:17:32 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets.)
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I always said from the first time that I heard 0bama’s slogan “Hope and Change”...

That most people will end up ‘hoping for some spare change’ from passers by.

Same thing when Jeffries or anyone of that ilk says it.


20 posted on 11/04/2026 7:25:36 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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