Kathleen Rice continues to oppose Pelosi

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2. Hakeem Jeffries, black caucus whip, is the new caucus chair.

I think THIS is far more important. Jeffries is 48 with years of good experience and has been talked about among his colleagues as an eventual possible speaker or other top leadership position -- because he stands out among and to his colleagues as leadership material.

How is it that the media, obligingly pushing stuff like Kathleen Rice's attention seeking, couldn't inform the public that Jeffries even existed until his Democratic colleagues forced some to admit it this afternoon?

Is it that it would spoil their pumping up and sensationalizing of a "battle of the shiny new v hoary old" theme? Btw, I just heard this 48-year-old member with several years experience in congress described as "new" on MSNBC.

Another, btw? He beat Barbara Lee, who contested for the position. Who's SHE? Oh, just another eminent but anonymous member of congress who didn't badmouth Nancy Pelosi.