Hakeem Jeffries Raises His Profile

Can Hakeem Jeffries Break Through?

Last week I went down to Washington to speak to Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, after he gave a speech marking Donald Trump's calamitous first 100 days in office. At a time when many Democrats feel leaderless, Jeffries, usually a relentlessly on-message inside operator, had been stepping further into the public eye. Not long before we spoke, he'd appeared on a live taping of the "Raging Moderates" podcast in Manhattan; it was, he sai…

Hakeem Jeffries Raises His Profile

“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) isn’t quite a household name. He’s trying to change that,” the Washington Post reports. “If Democrats win the House in 2026 and his colleagues elect him as speaker, the typically buttoned-up, on-message Jeffries could become the only member of his leaderless party with real power in President Donald Trump’s Washington.” “Allies have urged him to start putting himself out there now, seeing the 5…

Hakeem Jeffries joins Slow Boring

Hakeem Jeffries joined me yesterday to talk about the Republican reconciliation bill, the Knicks playoff run, and his ideas about reintroducing the Democratic Party to the public.

Who Owns the American Dream? Hakeem Jeffries Draws Battle Lines on Capitol Hill - The Pavlovic Today

Who owns the story of the American dream? Both Republicans and Democrats have fashioned their own versions—tailored, pitched, and packaged for a nation in flux. Republicans speak of “renewal,” evoking a kind of national restoration under Donald Trump. Democrats, led by figures like Hakeem Jeffries, frame it as a “fight”—not only against GOP policy, but against an erosion of opportunity.But beyond the slogans lies a deeper question: Whose dream, …