Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, met privately in recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
Jeffries and Kushner discussed an array of topics, including possible areas of common ground, the sources said. Although Kushner does not have an official role in the current administration, he has remained deeply involved, especially on issues related to foreign policy, and continues to serve as an outside adviser to the president.
The timing of the talks is striking. The midterms are less than 75 days away and Republicans are facing headwinds in recent polls. Democrats feel cautiously optimistic about their chances of taking the House and Jeffries would be in line to be the next speaker.
Jefferies want low Dem turnout to slightly increase his odds of pushing out Martin after midterms so they can get a neoliberal morning the presidential primary again. Even if that means two more years of Republicans having House and Senate.
He’s gonna keep doing stupid shit, I’ve been calling it for months and it’s nowhere near as bad as it can get yet.
If Dems take the House on a wave of progressives, there’s no way he gets Speaker now that the DNC can’t us the VF as a club to get him the votes.
For him personally his career is over if all the progressives who won their primaries win their generals. He’s afraid he’s gonna get Paul Ryan’d.
This is my take on it as well. Or to put it another way, Jeffries has become SO singularly focused on political strategy and optics manipulation that he has become oblivious not only to what it looks like from the outside, but that voters are actual people with needs who happen to be increasingly angry right now and he’s dancing with the son-in-law of the guy personally responsible for this growing hell.
He doesn’t even seem to have an inkling of the fact that by voluntarily involving himself with Kushner, in many eyes he has aligned himself directly with Trump. He certainly has in mine. I don’t give a good goddamn what the letter after his name is: if he’s voluntarily dealing with Kushner he is not averse to Trump, nor does he have a problem with anything Trump is doing. Period, end of.
This is what it looks like when a political actor gets so mentally sucked into playing the game of politics that they entirely lose sight of human voters and tangible outcomes for others in real life. Only someone so far up their own ass that they can scratch the inside of their right nostril with their left big toe can do what Jeffries is doing with Kushner and think it’s going to fly.
Hes in litithe safest district in America for Dems…
And his last primary was this season and the state party cancelled it when no one challenged him.
No one.
It was literally months ago, and no one ran against him. Granted a lot of it’s very wealthy, but redistricting in 2023 means he’s vulnerable to the left.
But he has no chance of losing the general, he’s not doing any of this to win his election.
And this isn’t “for the greater good” either it’s to maintain neoliberalism even if it means helping trump
He needs to get out of politics all together he is not welcome here
If he doesn’t get Paul Ryan’d, he should be even more afraid that he’s gonna get [REDACTED]'d.