Shock Defections Challenge Hakeem Jeffries

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“The surprise defections of two Democrats on a Republican procedural vote has sparked soul-searching in the party and raised new questions about whether Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries—the possible next House speaker—has the muscle to keep members in line,” the Wall Street Journal reports.“The votes showed that problems could potentially pop in the center of the caucus, alongside anticipated blowups on the left wing, and followed a dust-up over Jeffries’s recent private meeting with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law.”For members: Hakeem Jeffries Is No Nancy Pelosi