As Dems Implode, Hakeem Jeffries Gets a Big

As we reported, the socialists had a big evening in New York City, with three of the candidates endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani profitable in the first. Because it is a deep blue metropolis, it mainly means they’ll win the overall election. 

House Majority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) was the big loser on the evening, after the people he backed, such as long-term incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) (who was the top of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus), misplaced to the socialist wave. 

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The socialist crew also made it clear they had been coming for Jeffries, as our sister website, Townhall, reported. At the victory celebration for Claire Valdez, one of the Mamdani socialists who received, they first booed Jeffries when he appeared on the screen. 

The response from the gang to @RepJeffries pic.twitter.com/hxqaFQCLdT

— katie honan (@katie_honan) June 24, 2026

Then they chanted, “You’re next!” 

And a “you’re next” chant pic.twitter.com/KIuQPG5ckN

— katie honan (@katie_honan) June 24, 2026

That shouldn’t be an idle risk, and the civil battle was on. It didn’t go effectively. Here’s a pattern. 

What appears like a largely white crowd saying “you’re next” in a main to the potential first Black speaker of the House. https://t.co/3gCKqO4Ybt

— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) June 24, 2026

They do not care about the optics of chanting against a black House Majority Leader — all they care about is taking energy. And anybody who companions with them, as the Democrats have finished, will get thrown under the bus in the method. 

I feel it is truthful to say the Democrats are imploding. They embraced more of the novel left, and now it is come back to chew them big time. 

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) despatched Jeffries flowers and a condolence card. 

NEW: The @NRCC has delivered flowers and a condolences card to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) DC workplace after the House candidates he endorsed misplaced to Mamdani-backed socialists in NY last evening.

NRCC assertion to @FoxNews:

“Three losses in one night is tough. We… pic.twitter.com/tBhVrRZYzH

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 24, 2026

“Three losses in one evening is hard. We wished so-called ‘Leader’ Jeffries to know our ideas are with him, his candidates, and whatever stays of his affect in the Democrat Party,” NRCC Spokesman Mike Marinella quipped. 

The Democrats opened the door to this. It’s not only unhealthy for New York, but it is also unhealthy for America. This will doubtless drive Democrats even additional left in an effort to appease the intense, which is able to show how radical they’re to the remaining of America. 

But the remaining of America is not as eager on embracing socialism as New York City is likely to be. So this is probably going to trigger more defections by Democrat voters and more in the middle voting Republican to stop the ascent of this madness. And the Republicans ought to make it very clear in all their advertisements what the Democratic Party has change into with these radicals. Because it really is an existential battle against radicalism. 

Editor’s Note: The 2026 Midterms will decide the destiny of President Trump’s America First agenda. Republicans must preserve control of both chambers of Congress.

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