Hakeem Jeffries chooses calm over chaos as Democrats work to win the House majority

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Source: AP

Updated 8:51 AM EDT, November 1, 2024


PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) — This election, he has warned, is about the economy. Freedom. Stopping Project 2025 and the MAGA extremes. And, after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, it’s about democracy. And yet, Hakeem Jeffries, in line to make history as the first Black speaker of the House, says he is choosing to stay calm, as Democrats work to wrest control of the chaotic U.S. House from Republicans.

“In this unprecedented moment that we’re in, I’ve concluded that calm is an intentional decision,” Jeffries told The Associated Press during an interview at a park-side cafe in between campaign stops in Southern California. “We have to continue to make the decision to remain calm, execute the plan, run through the finish line,” he said. “And then put it into the hands of the American people.”

Ever tight, the campaign for control of the House is a toss-up, playing out in unlikely corners of the country far from the presidential race, including in Jeffries’ home state of New York and in California. A single contested seat, among 435, could make the difference if Democrats can flip the majority and dislodge Republican Mike Johnson from the speaker’s office.

Never before in the nation’s nearly 250-year history has a Black American been so close to grasping the gavel. Jeffries, 54, is part of a younger generation of leaders, alongside Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, proposing a new way forward, past the era of the former president, Republican Donald Trump.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/congress-elections-house-hakeem-jeffries-democrats-speaker-f503bef15e57604206e88c53edb3ad57

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. We really need the House.

[Lulu KC]

2. That's a leader

Stay calm. If he can do it, if Kamala can do it, if all these people whose actual lives are on the line every day can do it, it's what we should be doing.

How do they do it? Impressive.