Rep.-elect Don Leonard of Ohio said Tuesday that “senior members of the Democratic House” have threatened to make his life “a living hell” unless he backs, without conditions, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to be the next Speaker of the House.

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[+] -9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Yeah but how many will hold their vote against Jeffries? You count AOC out, can't believe she even thinking of running for president. She has no spin and sadly not the squad she once was.

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  • [–] 9 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

    To be fair, she is interviewed in OP, she does give an out that "there needs to be a race" as a practical matter to get to an alternative. She's only saying that she has no option today.

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  • [–] 3 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

    Doesn't matter the choice is being made on the 18th and 19th and the new Congress that was elected will not be given a voice or vote who will be in leadership.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    From https://www.congresscountdown.com/info/speaker-election

    The Speaker of the House is elected by the full House on the first day of every new Congress

    If the new members couldn't vote, there would be no reason for them to be threatening Don Leonard. I had to look up how it works because there's a lot of confusing statements in different news articles. The process is different between the House (all members vote) and Senate (each party elects their own majority leader), but in both cases the newly elected members will also be voting, once the new session starts in January with the new Congress.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    I look it up leadership who will be running is chosen behind close doors on 18th and 19th of this month. Again if only Jeffries is running which I hear is the case it support him or nobody. Fuck up but why he isn't worried.

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  • [–] 2 points 48 minutes ago*

    Yeah, so if they're threatening new members to make them vote for Jeffries in January, just imagine how strongly they're threatening anyone right now who even thinks about running against him, to make sure he'll be the only choice.

    Notice how these assholes have no problem playing hardball against their own side while meekly going along with the other side. Like on the Hegeth impeachment vote. If they really wanted to get the job done on impeaching him, they'd have made damn sure they had the people there to vote. Which means they didn't want to, or they didn't want to do it now when it was a repub who introduced the bill, or some other shit reason. Just shows what their agenda really is, no matter what they pretend it is. At least this guy is brave enough to reveal their duplicity, then the people can be the ones primarying them next time.

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