House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is living in an alternate reality where he thinks his party has Republicans “on the run.”
Jeffries essentially told Democratic Party leaders on a recent call not to believe their own eyes as Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress, not to mention the Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative majority.
“We have the Republicans on the run on three core issues,” Jeffries told DNC Chair Ken Martin, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), and others on a virtual call. “They are on the run in terms of the economy. In fact, Donald Trump and Republicans are crashing the economy in real time.”
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The Democrat leader claimed Trump’s speech before a joint session of Congress last week was “one of the most divisive speeches by a president in American history,” despite his own party members making clowns of themselves for their disrespect.
Jeffries went on to claim the economy under Trump is “collapsing on his watch.”
“They made promises with respect to lowering costs. Costs aren’t going down, they are going up. Inflation is going up. You know what’s coming down? Donald Trump’s poll numbers, because he is mismanaging the economy and the American people are feeling it…,” he claimed.
“We have them on the run in terms of health care – particularly as it relates to Medicaid. House Democrats stand on the side of Medicaid and the American people. Republicans are trying to enact the largest cut to Medicaid in American history, and we need to keep the pressure on them legislatively and in communities all across the country,” Jeffries continued.
“We have to continue to call them out on their extremism – we will do that,” he said. “And all of that is being done in service of trying to pass massive tax breaks for their billionaire donors like Elon Musk and wealthy corporations. So, we have them on the run, and we’re going to keep our foot on the gas pedal.”
Jeffries’ optimism – or delusion – is not something shared by many in the party, including veteran party strategist James Carville.
“With no clear leader to voice our opposition and no control in any branch of government, it’s time for Democrats to embark on the most daring political maneuver in the history of our party: roll over and play dead,” he wrote in a recent essay published by the New York Times. “Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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