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9. The bigger problem: calling for a vote -- "strong words" itself -- still isn't the same as getting Repubs back
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 05:49 PM
Nov 4

into the House to vote.

Though Jeffries could get the discharge petition onto the floor for a vote, he'd still require a simple majority of the House to sign it. Has he, for a fact, got a majority count that includes Republicans vote who'll vote for it? If so, he's been keeping that knowledge close to the vest.

We can't complain about Jeffries not getting Grijalva sworn in, as if that alone would make the discharge petition a done deal. We also know that House rules have always dictated that the minority absolutely cannot call the majority party back into session.

Sometimes letting growing public disapproval of House Republicans grow even more is a good strategy going toward the midterms.

Every single day Jeffries uses strong words on tv cable news deepens the public's memory of how servile, scared and stupid trump republicans have been for just one man.

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