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Melat Kiros doesn’t commit to supporting Jeffries speaker bid: ‘Still up in the air’

By Hailey Bullis
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Rep.-elect Melat Kiros, a Democrat from Colorado, declined to commit to backing Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-NY) bid for speaker during an event in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

Kiros, speaking during a panel at CrookedCon, said her vote is “something that’s still up in the air right now,” and that she looks forward to continuing conversations with leadership about her support.

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