Rep. Hakeem Jeffries describes next steps after VA redistricting ruling: 'Our fight is not over'
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries describes next steps after VA redistricting ruling: 'Our fight is not over'
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries describes next steps after VA redistricting ruling: "Our fight is not over"
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DECISION
TO BLOCK THE STATE'S NEWLY DRAWN AND VOTER APPROVED CONGRESSIONAL MAP,
THE DEMOCRATIC HOUSE LEADER, HOUSE MINORITY LEADER, HAKIM JEFFREY SAYS,0:09
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QUOTE,
OVER 3 MILLION VIRGINIA CITIZENS CAST THEIR VOTES IN A FREE AND FAIR
ELECTION YET THE STATE SUPREME COURT HAS CHOSEN TO INVALIDATE THEIR
VOICE, DISENFRANCHISE THEM AND 0:18
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VIOLATE THEIR DUE PROCESS RIGHTS.0:21
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THE
DECISION TO OVERTURN AN ENTIRE ELECTION IS AN UNPRECEDENTED AND
UNDEMOCRATIC ACTION THAT CANNOT STAND MAGA REPUBLICANS HAVE ADOPTED0:29
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VOTER SUPPRESSION AS A STRATEGY AS DEMOCRATIC ACROSS THE AMERICAN SOUTH WE0:42
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ARE EXPLORING ALL OPTIONS TO overturned this shocking decision.0:46
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No
matter what it takes, House Democrats will win in November so we can
help rescue this nation from the extremism being unleashed by Donald
Trump and Republicans.0:55
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Our fight is not over. We are JUST GETTING STARTED, AND QUOTE.0:59
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THE
DEMOCRATIC HOUSE MINORITY LEADER HAKIM JEFFRIES OF NEW YORK JOINS ME
NOW. CONGRESSMAN, THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. LET ME ASK YOU THIS.1:07
1 minute, 7 seconds
AT SOME POINT, THE POLLING INDICATES THE LIKELIHOOD THAT DEMOCRATS WILL TAKE THE HOUSE IN NOVEMBER,1:15
1 minute, 15 seconds
HISTORY SUGGESTS THE LIKELIHOOD THAT WILL HAPPEN.1:19
1 minute, 19 seconds
ARE YOU A LITTLE WORRIED THAT THIS NUTTY, OUT-of CONTROL, GERRYMANDERING ACTUALLY COMPROMISES THAT POSSIBILITY?1:28
1 minute, 28 seconds
NO,
WE'RE GOING TO WIN BACK THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN NOVEMBER. WE
ARE ONLY THREE SEATS SHORT. WE HISTORICALLY OVERPERFORMED IN NOVEMBER.1:35
1 minute, 35 seconds
and that's one of the reasons why Republicans are in panic mode.1:39
1 minute, 39 seconds
Remember, Ali, when we took the House back in 2018, we were 24 seats short. We crossed over that hurdle and, in fact,1:48
1 minute, 48 seconds
in 2018 we flipped a total of 40 seats.1:50
1 minute, 50 seconds
So, we're going to take back control of the House of Representatives.1:53
1 minute, 53 seconds
We're going to continue to make clear to the American people that we will lower their high cost of living,1:58
1 minute, 58 seconds
fix a broken health care system and clean up the corruption that we're seeing in the country, in the Congress,2:04
2 minutes, 4 seconds
certainly with the Supreme Court and deal with the most corrupt administration in American history.2:09
2 minutes, 9 seconds
Now we're going to need nationwide judicial reform. We're going to need nationwide electoral reform.2:15
2 minutes, 15 seconds
We're going to need nationwide campaign finance reform, which is why we have to take the House back, take the Senate back,2:23
2 minutes, 23 seconds
keep pressing forward and then in 2028, take the presidency back as well.2:27
2 minutes, 27 seconds
So I'm going to talk to you about those three areas of reform that you suggest.2:30
2 minutes, 30 seconds
You heard Elie Mestal saying he puts judicial reform at the top of that, but I want to talk about something else.2:34
2 minutes, 34 seconds
Of
those things you say you're going to talk to people and win their votes
over based on their cost of living and their health care.2:41
2 minutes, 41 seconds
That message is being very clearly put forward by an increasing number of progressive candidates who are winning primaries.2:49
2 minutes, 49 seconds
That sometimes feels out of sync with both the Democratic Party and who House leadership wants to run in primary elections.2:58
2 minutes, 58 seconds
And you face some criticism for this. Where are you on this?3:01
3 minutes, 1 second
Because the people winning elections right now tend to be putting that message forward very clearly.3:09
3 minutes, 9 seconds
Well, since January of 2025 in my first remarks to the new Congress,3:14
3 minutes, 14 seconds
we made clear that we're going to center lowering the high cost of living.3:19
3 minutes, 19 seconds
America is far too expensive IT'S A BELIEF OF DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE.3:21
3 minutes, 21 seconds
PEOPLE ARE WORKING HARD, THEY ARE PLAYING BY THE RULES AND THEY CAN'T THRIVE, THEY CAN BARELY SURVIVE.3:26
3 minutes, 26 seconds
THAT'S
A UNIVERSALLY AND DEMOCRATS AND DEMOCRATS HELD BELIEF AMONGST DEMOCRATS
IN THE HOUSE ACROSS THE IDEOLOGICAL SPECTRUM FROM PROGRESSIVES TO NEW
DEMS WE'VE SEEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY,3:36
3 minutes, 36 seconds
CONSECUTIVE MONTHS, TO BLUE DOGS AND ALL POINTS IN BETWEEN. WHAT WE'VE SEEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY,3:40
3 minutes, 40 seconds
WE'VE
NOW WON ELECTIONS FOR 16 CONSECUTIVE COUPLE OF MONTHS, INCLUDING IN
PLACES LIKE NEW JERSEY WHERE GOVERNOR MIKEY CHERYL RAN ON3:49
3 minutes, 49 seconds
AFFORDABILITY. THE NEW YORK CITY DEMOCRATIC POLITICS, IN VIRGINIA,3:56
3 minutes, 56 seconds
ABIGAIL SPAMBERGER RAN AND WON ON AFFORDABILITY. THIS IS A UNIVERSALLY HELD BELIEF.4:00
4 minutes
I
DON'T GET INVOLVED IN WE'LL SEE WHO EMERGES, BUT THE FOCUS HAS GOT TO
BE ON WINNING IN NOVEMBER AND THAT'S WHAT WE INTEND TO DO.4:12
4 minutes, 12 seconds
WHAT ABOUT NON-OPEN-SEAT PRIMARIES,4:14
4 minutes, 14 seconds
CHALLENGES
FROM PROGRESSIVES THE PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT ESTABLISHMENT DEMOCRATIC
LEADERSHIP HAS NOT MOVED FAST ENOUGH AND HARD ENOUGH.4:23
4 minutes, 23 seconds
BUT WE'RE GOING TO WE WILL CONTINUE TO DEFEND EVERY SINGLE HOUSE INCUMBENT.4:30
4 minutes, 30 seconds
ULTIMATELY,
HOWEVER, IT'S GOING TO BE UP TO THE PEOPLE AND THAT'S THE REALITY OF
SERVING IN THE HOUSE OF PEOPLE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.4:36
4 minutes, 36 seconds
THE INSTITUTION, THE FRAMER IS DESIGNED TO BE CLOSEST TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WE HAVE ONLY TWO YEAR EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS.4:42
4 minutes, 42 seconds
WE'VE
GOT TO GO BACK TO THE PEOPLE EVERY OTHER YEAR AND EVERYONE IS GOING TO
HAVE TO MAKE THEIR CASE TO THE INDIVIDUALS THAT THEY'RE PRIVILEGED TO
REPRESENT.4:49
4 minutes, 49 seconds
AND THAT'S WHAT, YOU KNOW, THEY'LL CONTINUE TO DO.4:52
4 minutes, 52 seconds
AND I'VE INDICATED WHETHER IT'S A PROGRESSIVE INCUMBENT, WHETHER IT'S A BLUE DOG, WHETHER IT'S A NEW DEM,4:57
4 minutes, 57 seconds
I'M
GOING TO SUPPORT MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS AND THEN WE ALL
HAVE TO COME TOGETHER TO ACTUALLY PUSH BACK AGAINST THIS UNPRECEDENTED
ATTACK ON OUR DEMOCRACY,5:07
5 minutes, 7 seconds
UNPRECEDENTED ATTACK ON FREE AND UNFORTUNATELY UNFAIR ELECTIONS,5:11
5 minutes, 11 seconds
AN
UNPRECEDENTED ATTACK ON BLACK REPRESENTATION IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH AND
ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHICH IS WHAT THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISION IN THE
SOUTH AND CALI HAS UNLEASED.5:21
5 minutes, 21 seconds
LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND BECAUSE YOU AND I FROM NEW YORK,5:24
5 minutes, 24 seconds
WE
DON'T LIVE, THERE'S NOT A DAILY LIVED EXPERIENCE OF RECONSTRUCTION AND
THE END of it and Jim Crow laws. In the South, there still is.5:32
5 minutes, 32 seconds
Like people have either in recent memory or they still experience things like that.5:36
5 minutes, 36 seconds
This is being described as like the end of RECONSTRUCTION. IT'S THAT SERIOUS.5:42
5 minutes, 42 seconds
IT TOOK DECADES, SEVEN DECADES TO GET OUT OF THAT MESS AND GET BACK TO 1965.5:48
5 minutes, 48 seconds
HOW
DO YOU GET PEOPLE IN NEW YORK AND CALIFORNIA AND MINNEAPOLIS AND PLACES
LIKE THAT TO THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS IS EVERYBODY'S FIGHT RIGHT
NOW.5:55
5 minutes, 55 seconds
THIS ISN'T JUST BLACK PEOPLE'S FIGHT. IT'S CERTAINLY EVERYBODY'S FIGHT.6:00
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LISTEN, DR. KING ONCE ELOQUENTLY MADE THE OBSERVATION THAT INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT6:13
6 minutes, 13 seconds
THE AMERICAN JOURNEY HAS ALWAYS BEEN CHARACTERIZED BY MOMENTS OF PROGRESS,6:17
6 minutes, 17 seconds
FOLLOWED
BY MOMENTS GENERATIONS OF BACKLASH AND THEN A NEW GENERATION OF
AMERICANS HAVE TO SHOW UP, STAND UP, SPEAK UP, FIGHT, GET INTO GOOD
TROUBLE TO 6:25
6 minutes, 25 seconds
USHER IN AN ERA OF WE WENT FROM THE PROGRESS OF EMANCIPATION TO THE BACKLASH OF JIM CROW.6:32
6 minutes, 32 seconds
THE PROGRESS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO THE BACKLASH OF MASS INCARCERATION,6:37
6 minutes, 37 seconds
THE PROGRESS OF EMANCIPATION WE ARE SEEING THIS BEHAVIOR THAT WE ARE SEEING COMING 6:46
6 minutes, 46 seconds
OUT OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES TO THROW THE AMERICAN SOUTH BACK INTO THE JIM CROW ERA.6:53
6 minutes, 53 seconds
So it's going to take an all-hands-on-deck effort,6:55
6 minutes, 55 seconds
and everybody has a stake in preserving a multiracial democracy as part of the effort to preserve7:04
7 minutes, 4 seconds
American exceptionalism as we move forward into our next 250 years.7:09
7 minutes, 9 seconds
There's nothing that Republicans are doing now that's anything of a surprise,7:12
7 minutes, 12 seconds
because
they wrote it all down in a 922-page book that Donald Trump denied
having anything to do with, and then they're implementing all of it.7:19
7 minutes, 19 seconds
Should there be a Democratic equivalent of that?7:23
7 minutes, 23 seconds
This
is actually how we're going to fix all of these problems, judicial
reform, electoral reform, nonpartisan redistricting, campaign finance
and everything else?7:33
7 minutes, 33 seconds
Yeah,
well, certainly I think a lot of that has been laid out by House
Democrats and we will continue to lay out what we think needs to be done
in order,7:41
7 minutes, 41 seconds
one,
to solve the problems that the American people want us to WE'VE GOT TO
ADDRESS IN TERMS OF AN AFFORDABLE LIFE, A COMFORTABLE LIFE,7:48
7 minutes, 48 seconds
GIVING THEM THE ABILITY TO LIVE A MIDDLE-CLASS LIFE OR BEYOND, LIVED A GOOD LIFE.7:52
7 minutes, 52 seconds
AT THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME, WE DO HAVE THESE WE'VE GOT TO,7:58
7 minutes, 58 seconds
FOR INSTANCE, MAKE SURE WE PASS THE JOHN ROBERT LEWIS VOTING RIGHTS ADVANCEMENT ACT SO WE CAN END THE ERROR OF8:05
8 minutes, 5 seconds
VOTER SUPPRESSION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ONCE AND FOR ALL. WE HAVE TO END CITIZENS UNITED,8:10
8 minutes, 10 seconds
DRAMATICALLY REFORM OUR CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS TO STOP THE ABILITY OF THESE DEEP-POCKETED SPECIAL INTERESTS TO INTERVENE.8:18
8 minutes, 18 seconds
AND WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO EXPLORE MASSIVE JUDICIAL REFORM,8:23
8 minutes, 23 seconds
STATE
BY STATE AND AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL AND EVERYTHING SHOULD BE ON THE TABLE
AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED. CONGRESSMAN, GOOD TO SEE YOU.8:30
8 minutes, 30 seconds
THANKS FOR BEING ON THE ON THE SHOW THIS MORNING.8:32
8 minutes, 32 seconds
WE APPRECIATE CONGRESSMAN HAKEM JEFFRIES OF NEW YORK IS THE DEMOCRATIC LEADER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.MS NOW
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