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House Dem leader Hakeem Jeffries demurs when asked about Dems’ terrible polls and listlessness
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0:41Now PlayingHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries danced around questions about the Democrats’ stunning unpopularity in recent polling, and confronted criticism that the party’s direction is rudderless under the second Trump administration.
Several Democrats have openly questioned congressional leadership over recent weeks, including Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who openly bashed congressional Democrats last week for “failing to address the real concerns that people have.”
“I have no idea what the governor was talking about. So you’re going to have to ask him for clarification,” Jeffries said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday when asked about Shapiro’s attack.
“Donald Trump’s poll numbers aren’t going up,” he pivoted. “They are coming down, particularly as it relates to his management of the economy. That’s a direct result of the fact that House Democrats and Senate Democrats have made clear that we are working to drive down the high cost of living.”
Jeffries and other top Dem leaders have responded to the so-called “flood the zone” strategy President Trump has deployed by more carefully picking and choosing battles with the new administration.
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