House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has avoided the same calls for mutiny plaguing his Senate counterpart, but the New York Democrat has yet to seize control of the Democratic Party and lead it out of its doldrums.
Democrats are in a rut with haphazard messaging campaigns, virtually no political power in Congress, and the lack of a national leader to take on President Donald Trump.
Jeffries has the ability to flip that narrative and become his party’s de facto captain. Democrats have high hopes for regaining the House majority next year, but a more pressing question facing a rudderless political party is if Jeffries can become the “man of the moment” to steer them back to victory.
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With record-low approval ratings and a majority of
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