Hakeem Jeffries, the underwhelming House Minority Leader, announced his bid for House Speaker on Wednesday after the Democrats swept the House in the midterm elections.
The Democrats flipped the House and Senate on Tuesday evening.
By Wednesday morning, the Democrats had officially won 228 House seats, and the count will still rise.
The New York Democrat echoed Barack Obama’s message of “change” in his letter to his colleagues.
Jeffries told his colleagues that the Democrat party must deliver “dramatic change” to the American people.
Politico reported:
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is running for speaker, he announced in a letter to colleagues Wednesday.
Democrats have long considered the New Yorker — who has served two terms as minority leader — the heir apparent to longtime leader Nancy Pelosi. If he wins the Jan. 3 floor vote, he would become the House’s first Black speaker.
“Against all odds, House Democrats were consistently successful in the minority,” Jeffries wrote in the letter. “We must now deliver the dramatic change the American people are demanding in the majority.”
Jeffries is well-positioned to lead House Democrats next term. Although an incoming crop of hard-left members has not committed to backing him for speaker, no alternative candidate has emerged, and the size of the Democratic majority appears likely to make a small group of holdouts irrelevant.
Jeffries has not explicitly promised to impeach President Trump if he becomes House Speaker, but he didn’t rule it out either.
“The American people don’t want us to get even. They want us to get things done on their behalf because life is way too expensive,” Jeffries recently told MS NOW when asked about a possible impeachment.
Jeffries did, however, say that the Democrats will “hold the Trump Administration accountable.”
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