The most important thing Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have in common isn’t their New York City borough. It’s their shared leadership style: Neither top-down nor reflexively ideological, they move easily among progressives and centrists alike.
, raised in working-class Crown Heights, leaned into his low-key persona to build the alliances he needed to slide intois the preternaturally gregarious son of an exterminator with a more freewheeling image — a former campaign arm chief who loves talking politics.
It will be a far different dynamic from the three-decades-old friendship between Schumer and Pelosi, who came up in the House together before the former swapped chambers. But one thing won’t change: Schumer’s famous working of the phones. The Senate majority leader, who called Pelosi as many as three to four times a day, insisted that he and Jeffries will talk daily.
But while Jeffries’ rise to the top rung of House leadership took just a decade, Schumer had a longer climb. He served 36 years in Congress and ran Senate Democrats’ campaign arm for two cycles before ascending to leader. “It will hopefully be as smooth a transition from one group of leaders to the next as is possible,” Jeffries said when asked about how he would replace Pelosi as Schumer’s legislative partner.
Cuellar described Jeffries as possessing a social ease that translates across the caucus’ ideological spectrum, but also knowing how to step in when needed: “He’s also told some of the lefties, ‘Hey, calm down.’ He’s not afraid to say, ‘Let’s do what we need to do.’”“First, getting along with all different kinds of people. Second: persistence. Don’t let barriers get into your way,” he said. “The ‘persist’ part is Brooklyn, all the way.
Still, Jeffries will have the distinctive obstacle of trying to procedurally kneecap the House GOP majority at every turn, starting with a possibly chaotic speaker election on Jan. 3. Current Minority Leaderhasn’t yet locked down the votes he needs to take the gavel, presenting Jeffries with something of an opportunity., a former House denizen, predicted that the GOP’s slim margin in the lower chamber would allow the Democratic minority to still play an instrumental role in the next Congress.
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