{"id":1225525,"date":"2022-01-19T17:53:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T22:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1225525"},"modified":"2022-01-19T17:53:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T22:53:35","slug":"rep-hakeem-jeffries-says-elections-bill-inspired-by-hugo-chavez-in-slipup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-hakeem-jeffries-says-elections-bill-inspired-by-hugo-chavez-in-slipup\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Says Elections Bill \u2018Inspired By Hugo Chavez\u2019 In Slipup"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frep-hakeem-jeffries-says-elections-bill-inspired-by-hugo-chavez-in-slipup%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1225525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries accidentally named&nbsp;the Venezuelan socialist dictator Hugo Ch\u00e1vez during a press conference Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?517337-1\/house-democratic-caucus-leaders-news-conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoke<\/a> on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act, two sweeping election reform bills Democrats have campaigned for in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries fumbled while trying to name labor leader Cesar Chavez in response to questions from the press, who expressed concern that left-wing members of the Democratic Party may be becoming frustrated with congressional Democrats\u2019 inability to enact key agenda items.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse Democrats have delivered in each and every area, and it\u2019s my expectation that we\u2019ll be able to find a pathway forward with the Senate on Build Back Better, and certainly, hopefully on voting rights,\u201d Jeffries said, before comparing Democrats\u2019 struggle to those of Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders of his era. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/03\/hakeem-jeffries-gender-neutral-language-rules-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Hakeem Jeffries Invokes Framers Of The Constitution To Defend New Gender-Neutral Language Rules)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd things aren\u2019t necessarily going to happen instantaneously. It didn\u2019t for Dr. King; it didn\u2019t for Rosa Parks; it didn\u2019t for Fannie Lou Hamer, or John Lewis, or A. Philip Randolph, or Roy Wilkins, or Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Shirley Chisholm. And we\u2019re inspired <strong>\u2014 <\/strong>Hugo Chavez\u2026 Cesar Chavez <strong>\u2014 <\/strong>we\u2019re inspired by all of these leaders,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>After correcting himself, Jeffries cited the struggles of these historic figures as inspiration for the Democrats\u2019 pursuance of voting legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/20\/hakeem-jeffries-defends-maxine-waters-kevin-mccarthy-sit-this-one-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">represented<\/a>&nbsp;New York\u2019s Brooklyn-centric eighth congressional district since 2013, and has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/democrats-pelosi-jeffries\/2022\/01\/01\/317f7792-5cfa-11ec-9c0e-a955f8a009c1_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">floated<\/a> as a potential successor to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries accidentally named\u00a0the Venezuelan socialist dictator Hugo Ch\u00e1vez during a press conference Wednesday.Jeffries spoke on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}