Hakeem Jeffries struggles to be the ‘man of the moment’ for leaderless Democrats

Published March 31, 2025 8:00am ET



House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has avoided the same calls for mutiny plaguing his Senate counterpart, but the New York Democrat has yet to seize control of the Democratic Party and lead it out of its doldrums.

Democrats are in a rut with haphazard messaging campaigns, virtually no political power in Congress, and the lack of a national leader to take on President Donald Trump.

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