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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries To Spearhead Effort To Flip New York House Seats
I get to see and hear this charismatic man on May 6th at the Humphrey/Mondale Dinner. We all know that getting back the House Majority begins with New York. Those Republicans who won in 2022 in Districts Joe Biden won in 2020 are many. Starting with Santos. There are Districts in California and elsewhere where Democrats came close and could win again. Given the piss poor job Republicans are doing, they have voting records that go AGAINST the very rights and freedoms we have all assumed would remain steadfast through time. We all have work to do and "GOOD TROUBLE" to get into.Source: Huff Post
After New York Democrats dismal showing last November, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn is not leaving anything to chance.
Together with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Jeffries is assembling an elite team inside the New York State Democratic Party that will run a coordinated campaign aimed at flipping Republican-held U.S. House seats and defending vulnerable Democratic House incumbents, according to three New York Democrats familiar with the matter.
Although Jeffries initiative, which is still being finalized, would operate inside the New York State Democratic Party, its very creation reflects top Democrats concerns that the state party, in its current form, is not equipped to become a central node in Democrats campaign to retake the House.
Read more at....[link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hakeem-jeffries-coordinated-campaign-democratic-house-seats_n_64471b66e4b03c1b88c8d058|
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries To Spearhead Effort To Flip New York House Seats (Original Post)
ProudMNDemocrat
Apr 2023
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Walleye
(31,056 posts)1. I love Hakeem Jeffries, can't wait to see him as speaker of the house
bucolic_frolic
(43,289 posts)2. Jeffries gets things done
Clear and powerful thinker and doer. I likes our chances.
Sky Jewels
(7,137 posts)3. Come on, New York!
We all desperately need you to get it together! Steamroll the effing GQP out of the state!
edhopper
(33,615 posts)4. Undo the damage
Andrew Cuomo did.
Wonder if they can revisit the Court ordered Congressional map.
Andrew Cuomo ...