Jeffries: Republicans don't have a mandate

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

11/19/24 4:30 PM ET


House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday rejected the idea that voters delivered an Election Day mandate to Donald Trump and the Republicans, arguing that the GOP’s razor-thin majority in the House means that nothing will get done in Washington without Democratic support.

“Despite the claims of some of my Republican colleagues, who have spent a lot of time over the last two weeks talking about some big, massive mandate — I’m looking for it,” Jeffries said during a press briefing in the Capitol.

The comments were a shot at the Republicans who, after winning control of the House, Senate and White House in the next Congress, have asserted broad powers to pursue a starkly conservative policy agenda.

That includes Trump, who used his victory speech on election night to claim “an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who argued Tuesday that voters gave Trump the authority to seat his preferred Cabinet picks — regardless of any controversy swirling around them.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4998716-hakeem-jeffries-republican-mandate/

[johnnyfins]

1. Jeffries could run circles

around Microscopic Johnson.

[nmmi]

2. But tRump has a certain kind of special majority status -

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A majority voted for someone else
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143343077

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Trump's popular vote margin victory down to 1.5%

Link to tweet

[nmmi]

8. tRump's popular vote margin is less than H Clinton's was (1.5% vs. 2.0%), and way below

Biden's 4.4%, and Obama's (2008: 7.2%, 2012: 3.9%).

[SupportSanity]

4. The mandate is Project 2025. Or am I missing something?

[Marthe48]

5. It's never stopped them before

Note the first steps bush the pretender took after the (formerly) s.c. installed his ass in the White House. And fascists have been upping the temp ever since.

rwnj are like frogs-they don't notice the water getting hotter. At this point, I doubt any rwnj placed in boiling water would jump out.

[cstanleytech]

6. Republicans don't also have compassion or honor.

[azureblue]

7. His margin is shrinking, and he cehated

At the moment, as more counts come in, Trump is at less than 1.7%.

Then there is some evidence the voting machines' counts were altered

https://www.reddit.com/r/houstonwade/comments/1gnwsv0/they_cheated/?share_id=gFcIL2lf4xz6DWeBKF5rT&utm_name=androidcss

[Hotler]

9. Excuse me sir, their voter mandate is right in the open and has been for a long time.

Their voter mandate is to deliver hate and cruel punishment. That's it plain and simple. Many of us recognized that long ago. You guys are late to the party.

[wolfie001]

10. Mandate of hate

It's not revenge because nobody did anything or said anything that wasn't 100% deserved. Those flaming POS.

[onenote]

11. Of course he doesn't have a mandate. But does it make any practical difference?

Trump says he does. Jeffries says he doesn't. The facts also say he doesn't. But what difference does it make? Does anyone think his loyalists on the Hill or the folks he appoints to the executive branch or independent agencies care what Jeffries says or the size of Trump's victory?

[BumRushDaShow]

12. It's standard "political messaging"

and it is done to "drive narratives" in the media.

[onenote]

13. I know why its done, but in today's world, does anyone think it will make a practical difference?

[BumRushDaShow]

15. If there is a vacuum in the messaging

"someone" will inevitably fill it and if that "someone" means the loons, then their repetition of their perspectives will only magnify their view, making it more and more difficult to counter, because it inevitably is accepted as "fact" (even though it isn't).

[Scubamatt]

14. THIS . . .

is what our leadership should all be doing. Get the talking point out there. Now. Yesterday. And have every Democrat who goes on any media repeat it loudly, consistently and constantly. It won't stop Trump from picking the craziest traitor clowns for his cabinet, but it WILL start to shape the public's perception of what is goin on and start to lay a foundation for 2026. Republicans are masters at this perception-shaping and we need to learn to do the same. Kudos to Leader Jeffries. Now all Democrats and Democratic leaders: rinse and repeat!!!!!

[The Mouth]

16. Would we call it a "mandate" if the numbers were reversed?

I don't think so.