{"id":7396,"date":"2025-10-18T23:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7396"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:10:09","slug":"jeffries-losing-support-dozens-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7396","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries Losing Support, Dozens o"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Growing Doubts About Jeffries\u2019 Leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dozens of Democratic House candidates told <em>Axios<\/em> they may not<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>back Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) for party leader, signaling unrest as the 2026 election nears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Survey Results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of 113 Democratic candidates contacted, 20 said they wouldn\u2019t vote for Jeffries,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>five were likely to oppose him, and 57 refused to commit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only 24 pledged firm support. Many cited concerns about ideology, messaging, and leadership style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Criticism from the Left<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Progressives argue Jeffries isn\u2019t fighting hard enough against Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe need a new type of leadership that\u2019s going to fight back significantly harder,\u201d said candidate Heath Howard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kat Abughazaleh added that Democrats must \u201cuse our leverage to demand progressive change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeffries\u2019 Response<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeffries\u2019 office dismissed the reports, saying he remains focused on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cbattling Donald Trump, ending the Republican shutdown \u2026 and addressing the crushing GOP health care crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing Doubts About Jeffries\u2019 Leadership Dozens of Democratic House candidates told Axios they may not back Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) for party leader, signaling unrest as the 2026 election nears. Survey Results Out of 113 Democratic candidates contacted, 20 said they wouldn\u2019t vote for Jeffries, five were likely to oppose him, and 57 refused&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7398,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions\/7398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}