Hakeem Jeffries Says He Doesn’t Back Medicare for All After Study Finds It Would Save 114k Lives a Year
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This is a reversal of his prior stance on the legislation, which he once cosponsored.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) has said that he now opposes Medicare for All, flipping on his previous stance just as Democrats are on the cusp of potentially winning back control of the House. Medicare for All is “not legislation that I am currently cosponsoring or that I support,” Jeffries said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. Jeffries declined to say…

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  • taiyang
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    12 hours ago

    Well, except most house races are too safe to care about Republican (or Democrat) challengers to even do that. Hakeem won with 75% of the vote in the general.

    So they really don’t need to win any voters over, they win simply by virtue of belonging to the dominant party in their district. That said, they need to win their party leadership, and it’s financial owners, over… hence how the system is so insanely corrupt.

    • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
      4·
      11 hours ago

      Hakeem won with 75% of the vote in the general.

      He got 75% of 241,150 votes cast. Kings County had a population of 2.6 million people in 2024. And they canceled the primary. So once again, he ran uncontested.

      I don’t think anyone in 2018 would have expected AOC would get 2000 more votes than the Chairman of the Democratic Caucus.