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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stood in front of a progressive conference on Tuesday and said exactly what Democrats think about the tens of millions of Americans who voted for President Trump. He wants to break them. VIDEO AT LINK................. He said Democrats had to beat them at the ballot box, then break their spirit. The remarks came during the 2026 CAP IDEAS Conference, hosted by the Center for American Progress and streamed online via Zoom. Jeffries, who would become Speaker of the House if Democrats retake the majority in November, used his session to frame the midterm election as...

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 🚨 NOW: Hakeem Jeffries and House Democrats are RAGING and pulling out the RACE CARD after realizing Rep. Jim Clyburn (D) is about to LOSE his South Carolina racially drawn seat, which he held for 33 YEARS After decades of cheating, the South is WIPING OUT Temu Obama's plans to win the redistricting wars! AOC WHINES: "MAGA is the last dying breath of a Confederacy and it could not be more true!" 🤡 Another Dem cries: "There are people in this hostile anti-Black administration that would rather Black Americans pick cotton than pick the president, then pick...

Last week, in the wake of the Democrats losing the redistricting battles, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said, “We will beat the far-right extremists. We’re going to win in November, and then we’re going to crush their souls as it relates to the extremism that they are trying to unleash on the American people.” To Politico, this is a sign that Democrats had “ditched the niceties,” calling it “a marked reversal from years of high-minded Democratic rhetoric.” MS NOW reports that “Democrats say they are done playing defense.” “Niceties”? “High-minded rhetoric”? “Playing defense”? When have Democrats ever been like that?...

The Talk ShowsNov 16th, 2025 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.); Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.); Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll; Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) and Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.). FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-LA); Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.); Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) ; Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.); Dr. Marc Siegel, medical director of NYU's Doctor Radio on Sirius XM. Panel: Mollie Hemingway, Josh Kraushaar, Comfortably Smug and Jessica Turdloaf.MEET THE dePRESS (NBC):...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) responded to a question on whether he thinks the 2026 midterms will be rigged by saying that “in many of the states where there will be competitive gubernatorial elections and certainly in the overwhelming majority of the states where the House will be decided, there are Democratic governors, Democratic attorney generals, and Democratic secretaries of state” “And I’ve got trust in those leaders to make sure that there are actual free and fair elections.” But he’d “be far more concerned…if we were looking at a situation...

House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on Saturday night said that President Donald Trump has “failed” to bring peace to the Middle East after Trump ordered the bombing of Iranian nuclear sites. Jeffries, the leader of House Democrats, said in a written statement: Donald Trump promised to bring peace to the Middle East. He has failed to deliver on that promise. The risk of war has now dramatically increased, and I pray for the safety of our troops in the region who have been put in harm’s way. President Trump misled the country about his intentions, failed to seek congressional...