House Democrats on Wednesday voted in favor of Hakeem Jeffries to lead the House minority to replace the hitherto 82-year-old Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Jeffries won the seat during an ultimately uncontested election as the other two Democratic Party candidates, Steny Hoyer and Jim Clyburn, chose to resign. The leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives since 2003, submitted her resignation one day after the Republican party certified the majority in the House following the mid-term elections. "The hour has come for a new generation to lead the Democratic caucus," Pelosi announced.
Now, 52-year-old New Yorker Hakeem Jeffries will be the first African-American to become a House Minority Leader.
Although Pelosi is stepping down from her leadership post, she will remain in the House as a rank-and-file Congresswoman.
The soon to be leader of the Democratic party in the House of Representatives continues to consider the 2016 election results illegitimate in which Donald Trump was elected as president. He even refused to attend Trump's inauguration held in January 2017 insisting that he had stolen the election with the support of the Kremlin. Not even after the investigation conducted by Robert Muellen, which showed Trump's innocence to such accusations, did he stop accusing Trump in the 2020 election of being an illegitimate president.
