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Hakeem Jeffries: “They started this Congress with a narrow majority, only…”

Featuring: Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 8th Congressional District

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Press Conference on Republican Failure to Make Life Better for Americans

Published | Video Starts at 25:06

They are in plain sight trying to rig the midterm elections because they're desperate to cling on to power because Republicans have been a complete and total failure. The reason why they're in complete and total panic mode is because They started this Congress with a narrow majority, only three seats up, narrowest majority of any party since the Great Depression in 1930. And the Republicans know exactly what happened during the first Trump midterm election. They lost 40 seats. These weren't Democratic leaning seats. These weren't swing seats. (25:06–25:20)

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Asserts that Republicans began the Congress with the narrowest majority since 1930.

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