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Hakeem Jeffries: “When Democrats took the House back in 2018, we had to flip…”

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 11:21

And by the way, what math, what math are people focused on when they think about the electoral environment that we're in? When Democrats took the house back in 2018, and at minimum, we're in a 2018 environment. When Democrats took the House back in 2018, we had to flip 24 seats... we flipped 40. didn't just flip 24 seats in 2018, we flipped 40. And of those 40 seats, 31 were in districts that Donald Trump had just won. (11:21–11:42)

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Asserts that Democrats flipped 40 seats in 2018, exceeding the 24 needed.

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