Hakeem Jeffries on NPR's Morning Edition talking about the debt ceiling.

United House Democrats To Send An Epic Message As Republicans Descend Into Chaos

Last updated on October 6th, 2023 at 06:36 pm

As House Republicans tear each other to pieces, House Democrats have told all members that they must be in attendance next week to vote for Hakeem Jeffries to be Speaker.

This is the message that Whip Katherine Clark sent to every Democratic member of the House:

The Democrats are sending a message to the nation by being unified behind Hakeem Jeffries in the next Speaker of the House election, while House Republicans are on the verge of physically attacking each other in meetings.

House Democrats are unified, and they are going to stand together with Leader Jeffries as one.

Even though the House is planning on moving forward with their private caucus election next week, there is a great deal of skepticism related to whether there will be any resolution to this situation by next Wednesday.

The impression is that unless House Republicans can unify behind a candidate, the chaos in the House could linger for weeks or even months.

It is unlikely that Jeffries has any chance of being elected the next Speaker of the House, but with the Republican majority being so small, if Republicans have even a few absences, anything is possible.

If the time doesn’t come for Leader Jeffries now, it will likely arrive on Election Day 2024.

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