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Hakeem Sekou Jeffries (/ ˌ h ɑː ˈ k iː m / hah-KEEM; born August 4, 1970 [2]) is an American politician and attorney who has served as House minority leader and Leader of the House Democratic Caucus since 2023.
Hakeem Jeffries nearly became House speaker. Instead, he’s steering the Democratic Party through an identity crisis and hoping to avoid an ugly intraparty civil war. Even without the gavel, many ...
The Brooklyn-born Jeffries took over as House Democratic leader when Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi stepped aside, making him heir apparent to the speaker’s office. He is poised to win internal ...
Democrats hope to erase Republicans' narrow 217-212 majority in the Nov. 5 elections, which would allow them to elect Jeffries as the first-ever Black speaker of the House, a role second in line ...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday rebuffed critics who claim former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been undercutting his leadership of ... led House Democrats from 2003 until early ...
But Jeffries, a lawyer before coming to Congress, doesn’t want to talk about the milestone of becoming House speaker, and he won’t venture to predict that Democrats will sweep the House majority. He wants to talk about the choices before voters right now. "Everything we care about is on the line. Everything we care about is on the ballot.
“The biggest applause line I get when I go to districts is, ‘Help us win, because our goal and the uniting force of House Democrats is to make Hakeem Jeffries speaker of the House,’” said ...
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 06: Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speak to one another in the House Chamber during the fourth day of elections for Speaker of the ...