An online petition that demanding that Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) not be the next Democratic Speaker of the House has hit one million signatories on Saturday as the clamor for a leadership change within the party explodes after historic midterm wins driven by populist demands. As of this writing, the Change.org petition — titled “House Democrats: CHOOSE A NEW SPEAKER” — has 1,007,831…
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Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, likely the next chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has expressed greater openness to impeaching President Donald Trump following his party’s “blue wave” of election victories earlier this week. Although Raskin previously served as manager of the Trump impeachment that followed the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of the president’…
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Incoming freshman senator Abdul El-Sayed says that he would support progressive Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) to replace Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) as Democratic leader in the Senate, advocating for a rejection of Schumer’s stalwart centrist mode of operation after Democrats’ massive blue wave. “I’ve been very clear. I think he’d be an amazing Senate majority leader. Of course, that’…
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House minority leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) is downplaying the potential to hold the Trump administration accountable following Democrats’ monumental win in the 2026 midterm elections, despite a large proportion of voters signaling that they believe there are grounds for impeaching President Donald Trump. In an interview following the midterm elections, Jeffries…
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A growing number of House Democrats are calling for Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Michigan) to be expelled from their caucus after she seemingly broke rules in her surprise endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers in the tight Senate race in Michigan on Sunday, marked by some as a “despicable betrayal.” According to Politico, at least eight Democrats were supportive of some form of punishment by…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) has said that he now opposes Medicare for All, flipping on his previous stance just as Democrats are on the cusp of potentially winning back control of the House. Medicare for All is “not legislation that I am currently cosponsoring or that I support,” Jeffries said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. Jeffries declined to say…
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