Democratic Congressman Hakeem Jeffries had hoped the 2024 election would make him speaker of the House of Representatives.
Anticipating victory, he wrote a new illustrated book, The ABCs of Democracy, which published on Tuesday. In it, Jeffries frames simply, for young readers, the virtues his party offers: American values over autocracy, benevolence over bigotry, and so on.
But Jeffries’ political adversaries, led by President-elect Donald Trump, won a clear victory last week as the electorate shifted in their direction.
As more than a dozen House races remain undecided, there’s still an outside chance Jeffries could become speaker. But the Brooklyn Democrat will most likely lead a Democratic minority in a reshaped Washington featuring Republican control of the House, Senate, and White House, as well as the Supreme Court. …more