House Democrats on Nov. 30 voted for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to succeed Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as the party’s top leader in the lower chamber of Congress.
Democrats gathered behind closed doors to elect their new leaders for the 118th Congress, after Pelosi, the House’s current speaker, announced she wouldn’t seek a leadership position. Democrats also chose current Deputy Speaker of the House Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) as minority whip and Rep. Pete Aguilar of California as Caucus chair; those are the party’s No. 2 and No. 3 leaders in the House.
Jeffries, 52, is the current Caucus chair.
Democrats will be in the minority starting in January 2023, when new members are sworn in, after Republicans flipped key seats in the midterm elections. It will be the Democrats’ first time in the minority since 2019….