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Some Republicans Threatening To Not Show For Next Speaker Vote And Allow Hakeem Jeffries To Win

Sometime next week, it’s expected that Republicans will call a vote to determine the next speaker of the House, but their leading candidate, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) appears less certain to get the 217 votes needed to win the post, which has led to both concern and shock among the GOP, according to Politico.

It also leaves Jordan with a dilemma: Should he attempt to paint himself as a “team player” or “revert back to the tough tactics he built his reputation on?”

One thing is clear: He has work to do. While Jordan won the GOP nomination for speaker yesterday, the vote was far from the display of unity that he and his allies had predicted. An eye-popping 81 Republicans rejected Jordan in favor of a low-key backbencher, Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.), who decided to run just hours before the vote.

Then again, it may not matter whether Jordan comes off as nice guy or hard-ass because some members of the caucus are suggesting they may conveniently be in dispose when the balloting takes place.

Olivia Beavers of Politico posted this on Twitter:

“What happens when Jordan forces us to the floor to try to pressure us and all of a sudden we don’t show up and Hakeem Jeffries is speaker cause he wanted to be a bully ?” one upset House Republican just texted me.

It would only take five Republicans to be elsewhere when the vote is held for Jeffries to win. And there are likely more than that inside the GOP who despise Jordan enough that they’d be eager to see him humiliated.

Next week on Capitol Hill promises to be interesting.

 

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Hakeem Jeffries Slams ‘Totally Out Of Control’ Marjorie Taylor Greene For Her Antics 

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) shredded Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Thursday for her continued praise of and support for Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira, noting that she’s “totally out of control” and the face of the Republican Party.

“The extreme MAGA Republicans are showing the American people who they are,” Jeffries said at his weekly press conference. They’re not even trying to hide their extremism. And Exhibit A is Marjorie Taylor Greene.”

“She’s totally out of control. But they don’t care,” he continued. “The leadership apparently supports Marjorie Taylor Greene. The rank-and-file Republicans apparently support Marjorie Taylor Greene. She’s allowed to lie. She’s allowed to debase the institution. Apparently, Marjorie Taylor Greene is even allowed to elevate someone who appears to have engaged in espionage and treason against the United States of America.”

“And it doesn’t matter. Because Marjorie Taylor Greene is the face of this version of the House Republican conference,” Jeffries added.

Greene is so out of control that the the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) told her to be quiet when she verbally attacked Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a Wednesday hearing, which led to reports that some of her fellow GOP House members wanted her removed from the committee.

 

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Hakeem Jeffries Hilariously Swats Down MT Greene’s Prediction About Trump’s Political Future

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) only needed a few works to completely destroy Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) prediction that if failed former president Donald Trump is indicted, it will win the 2024 election in a landslide.

Appearing on the debut episode of the Sunday MSNBC show “Inside with Jen Psaki,” Jeffries was asked by the host, “I want to read you one more tweet. This is from Marjorie Taylor Greene where she said, ‘If the Manhattan DA indicts Donald Trump, he will ultimately win even bigger than he is already going to win.'”

“Do you agree with the notion that indictment would help Donald Trump politically?” Psaki asked.

Jeffries responded:

“The last person that I’m going to lean into for political insight is from Marjorie Taylor Greene. Although I should note that she has become one of the most important House Republicans in the Congress and, for all we know, could be on the presidential ticket as the vice presidential candidate for Donald Trump.”

The New York Democrat continued, “That is how important she has become to the extreme MAGA Republican House majority in the Congress right now but that is also one of the reasons why the American people should be concerned.”

Greene, it may interest you to know, has spent most of the weekend rage tweeting about Trump’s pending indictment in Manhattan. Here’s a sampling of some of the vitriol she’s been posting:

“We don’t need to protest about the Communists Democrat’s planning to arrest Pres Trump and the political weaponization of our government and election interference. These idiots are sealing their own fate in 2024 because the silent majority has two feelings right now about the current regime. Fear and anger. That is the most powerful combination when election time comes. And the Democrats are driving that force with their own corrupt actions.”

“We must bring in the Biden DOJ officials who have been coordinating with the Manhattan DA to testify. And subpoena all of it. We must end the weaponization of government power for politics.”

Marge is upset because her cult leader may be arrested. Maybe she needs to move to Moscow so she can be closer to her other savior.

 

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Hakeem Jeffries Trolls Trump’s 2024 Campaign And It’s Guaranteed To Enrage The Donald

Even though he has formally announced that he’s seeking the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump’s so-called campaign is struggling to get off the ground, according to recent reports.

Business Insider noted:

Aides to former President Donald Trump are surprised by how few allies are showing up at his 2024 campaign events, New York Times star reporter Maggie Haberman said. 

Speaking on CNN Tuesday, Haberman discussed how Trump’s 2024 campaign has gotten off to a slow start, and his plans to gear it up at a campaign event in South Carolina on Saturday.

“I think they are also finding, his team, that people are not swelling around him in the Republican Party in these states the way they had believed,” she said.

“Now he still has supporters and still has his operation, it’s pretty small. I think they thought they would be able to get all of these people to just show up for him.”

How humiliating it must be for Trump to have to beg for support after being able to snap his fingers and have GOP political figures show up.

Those reports must have been on the mind of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) when he was asked Thursday about Facebook’s decision to reinstate the failed former president to the platform in time for the 2024 campaign.

“I think the issue in terms of the concerns, the danger, I think many of us will have more to say about that,” Jeffries remarked.

But it was what Jeffries said next that’s likely to upset Trump the most:

“To the extent that he moves forward with his so-called presidential campaign. It happens to be a very low-energy campaign, by the way.”

The minority leader added:

“(Some candidates) seem to believe that perhaps dividing America or leaning into extreme narratives that don’t have anything to do with historical reality perhaps might advance their own personal aspirations.”

Expect an angry response from Trump before the end of the day.

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Hakeem Jeffries Just Put Kevin McCarthy On Notice

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has just put Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on notice regarding committee assignments, and if McCarthy ignores the warning it could well make his tenure as Speaker shorter than he ever imagined.

The Washington Post reports that Jeffries wrote McCarthy to let him know he was recommending Reps. Adam B. Schiff and Eric Swalwell be reappointed to the House Intelligence Committee, which Schiff once chaired.

In a letter dated Saturday, Jeffries argued that McCarthy has no justifiable reason not to accept his appointments of Schiff, who served as chairman of the Intelligence panel until Republicans took control of the chamber, and Swalwell.

In his letter, Jeffries writes:

“It is my understanding that you intend to break with the longstanding House tradition of deference to the minority party Intelligence Committee recommendations and deny seats to Ranking Member Schiff and Representative Swalwell. The denial of seats to duly elected Members of the House Democratic Caucus runs counter to the serious and sober mission of the Intelligence Committee.”

McCarthy has said he will not place Schiff and Swalwell on the Intelligence Committee, seeking to exact revenge on Democrats for removing Reps. Paul Gosar (AZ) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) from committee assignments. But as Jeffries notes in his letter, both Gosar and Greene were removed by a vote of the full House.

Greene and Gosar were removed “after a bipartisan vote of the House found them unfit to serve on standing committees for directly inciting violence against their colleagues. It does not serve as precedent or justification for the removal of Representatives Schiff and Swalwell, given that they have never exhibited violent thoughts or behavior.”

Jeffries also pointed out that McCarthy had no problem appointing “serial fraudster” George Santos (R-NY) to committees despite the fact that he is facing multiple investigations, including from the House Ethics Committee and may also be subjected to criminal prosecution for lying in order to win his congressional seat.

If McCarthy insists on refusing to seat Schiff and Swalwell, Democrats could call for a motion to vacate, a procedure which would result in a formal vote to remove McCarthy from the Speaker’s chair. Considering that McCarthy only holds a slim majority in the House, such a move could further weaken him.