Jeffries made the comment during an appearance on ESPN host Stephen A. Smith’s podcast and suggested that Democrats lost their momentum in the 2024 election because “the extreme left” held them back. When asked about pushing back against “the far left” ahead of the midterm elections, Jeffries said “the extreme left” protests him more so than Trump because he does not “bend the knee” to either.
Smith then pressed Jeffries to find out “what’s the plan” for the Democratic Party going forward, to which the minority leader responded that the party needs to “stop bad things from happening.”
“Listen, we’re going to win in the midterms, and we have no choice but to be successful in the midterms,” Jeffries said. “But we’ve got to get through the first 100 days, then the first year, and then, of course, get to the midterm…
