Source:C-SPAN covering House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (Democrat, New York) weekly press briefing.

Source:The New Democrat

“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on former President Trump’s meetings with Congressional Republcans: “It was shameful and a complete embarrassment that my extreme MAGA Republican colleagues decided to welcome the insurrectionist and chief back to the capitol as a conquering hero not someone who lied about the 2020 presidential election and incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol in order to halt the peaceful transfer of power. The Republican Party no longer exists in its traditional form. This is the Trump Party.”

From C-SPAN

“It was shameful and a complete embarrassment that my extreme MAGA Republican colleagues decided to welcome the insurrectionist-in-chief back to the Capitol as a conquering hero,” said House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY) during his weekly press conference when asked about former President Trump’s visit to Capitol Hill the day before. On the National Defense Authorization Act, the minority leader acknowledged the bipartisan support it had when it came out of the Armed Services Committee, but said the “extreme MAGA Republicans are not interested in governing … they have hijacked the National Defense Authorization Act in order to jam their extreme right-wing ideology down the throats of the American people.” When asked about Supreme Court ethics of justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, Leader Jeffries said, “it appears that Justice Alito is a right-wing insurrectionist sympathizer, joined by his right-wing buddy Clarence Thomas.”

From C-SPAN

As I pointed out yesterday: 

“I just have to start off by saying: the balls of some people. I mean here’s the guy who led the 2021 insurrection on Congress and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell who was leading the Senate Republicans back in 2021 as well, welcomes him back to the U.S. Capitol to talk his conference 42 months later. Not so much on Mitch McConnell, but Donald J. Trump literally visiting the scene of his crimes at a place he hasn’t been to in perhaps 4 years, when he was still President of the United States.”

From The New Democrat 

As my colleague Fred Schneider pointed out yesterday: 

“On a day where both House and Senate Republicans were hopefully trying to get behind some unifying, Republican, national, agenda, that he and Congressional Republicans could run together on, DJT shows them his very own nationally, syndicated, daily talk show, that’s all about himself and everything that sucks in his world.” 

From The New Democrat

We covered this yesterday. But one good point that House Minority Leader Jeffries made here was that Congressional Republicans (House & Senate) are now going to have to run with Donald Trump for reelection, with reproductive rights, and American democracy literally on the ballot. And he’s saying that the Democratic Party believes in those American values and the MAGA Party doesn’t it.

If the 2024 presidential election is about whether American voters like President Joe Biden and the job that he’s doing, regardless of who his opponent is and what the next Congress could look like, if his opponent wins, President Biden probably loses.

But if this is about Donald Trump and MAGA and what they would do, if they’re ever back in power, (God help us, is that ever happens again) then Democrats will probably not just win, but you’ll see a reelected President Biden and a Democratic Congress next year. If Democrats, including left-wing Democrats, simply get out and vote and vote foe Democrats in the general elections.