House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries has been elected the Democrats’ new leader in the 118th Congress, replacing Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who will be replaced as Speaker when Republicans take control of the House majority.
Jeffries leads the caucus to which Alaska Democrat Rep. Mary Peltola belongs. A radical who believes the 2016 presidential election and other elections that Republicans won were stolen, Jeffries will be the one giving marching orders to Alaska’s only congressional representative.
Jeffries represents the Eighth Congressional District of New York, an area that encompasses large parts of Brooklyn and a section of Queens. Serving his fifth term in the United States Congress, Rep. Jeffries is a member of the House Judiciary Committee and House Budget Committee.
Jeffries is an election denier. In 2016, he wrote on Twitter about Russian collusion with Republicans: “The more we learn about 2016 election the more ILLEGITIMATE it becomes. America deserves to know whether we have a FAKE President in the Oval Office #RussianInterference.”
Twitter, under the old leftist management, did not remove Jeffries’ account even after multiple instances of misinformation. His frequent comments on Republicans have been preserved for posterity:
Jeffries has claimed multiple elections were stolen: “Is the North Carolina congressional seat the only one stolen by rogue Republican operatives? We may need a comprehensive criminal investigation to figure that out #CleanUpCorruption,” he wrote in 2018.
He also claimed the Supreme Court justices appointed by President Donald Trump were sitting in stolen seats: “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,” he wrote in 2018.
In 2017, he challenged the legitimacy of Supreme Court Judicial nominee Neil Gorsuch: “With legitimacy of Trump’s presidential election in doubt, his lifetime appt to Supreme Court can wait FilibusterGorsuch #StopGorsuch,” he wrote.
His Twitter tirades included claims that Trump solicited foreign interference in the 2020 elections:
“Trump betrayed America. He abused his power by soliciting foreign interference in the 2020 election. And undermined our national security. The cloud of illegitimacy hanging over 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. grows stronger by the day.”
Jeffries in November of 2020, said of Trump, “History will never accept you as a legitimate President.”
He pushed conspiracy theories about voter suppression. In 2021, Jeffries wrote, “What kind of political party worships at the altar of voter suppression? A morally bankrupt one.”
“Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier to steal an election. We will crush voter suppression with the fierce urgency of now. Pass HR 1,” he wrote. HR1 was the bill that would have made it easier to cheat in elections.
The mainstream media has ignored his conspiracies and disinformation campaigns.
