Democrats finally turned the page on Nancy Pelosi’s time as leader in the House of Representatives.
But Democrats made a major mistake with her successor.
And Nancy Pelosi’s replacement has this dark secret in his past.
Nancy Pelosi played off bowing out of a leadership race after the midterm elections as a generational passing of the torch.
“For me, the hour has come for a new generation to lead the Democratic caucus that I so deeply respect, and I’m grateful that so many are ready and willing to shoulder this awesome responsibility,” Pelosi declared in a speech on the House floor.
But the fact of the matter is Pelosi lost the majority for a second time in 12 years and Democrats were itching to elect leaders that were under the age of 80 years old.
Democrats unanimously voted to elect New York Congressman Hakeem Jeffries as the new House minority leader.
Jeffries leaned into identity politics and his status as the first black man to lead one of the two parties in Congress as a historic occasion.
“Leadership is incredibly important,” Jeffries declared. “When we get an opportunity as diverse leaders to serve in positions of consequence, the most meaningful thing we can do in that space is an incredibly good job.”
Members of the corporate media gladly played along hyping Jeffries’ race as the main story of his ascension.
But there is another story that the Democrats and their allies in the corporate press were desperate to avoid.
And that is the fact that by unanimously voting for Jeffries as their leader Democrats exposed their entire 2022 campaign message of election-denying Republicans threatening democracy as fraudulent.
Throughout Donald Trump’s presidency Jeffries denied the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s win over Hillary Clinton calling Donald Trump a fake president who won a fake election.
In February 2018, Jeffries tweeted this insanity: pic.twitter.com/xa7DkuBYLE
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 22, 2022
Jeffries even amplified the Big Lie that Donald Trump cheated in the 2016 election by colluding with the Russians to hijack American democracy.
“LIE (more than any administration in the history of the Republic). CHEAT (2016 election/Russian Interference). STEAL (one or two Supreme Court seats). When will Republicans put country ahead of party? #CleanUpCorruption,” Jeffries posted on Twitter.
Democrats just latched on to the “election denier” meme because they couldn’t run on Joe Biden’s record.
And it worked in several key gubernatorial and Senate elections where swing voters rejected Trump-backed candidates after buying into the Democrat Party’s smear campaign.
But the truth is Democrats denied the legitimacy of Republican presidential election wins in 2000, 2004 and 2016.
By choosing Jeffries as their leader Democrats aren’t even pretending that rejecting the legitimacy of elections they lose is anything other than a core party principle.
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