Incoming House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries played down the chances of his caucus compromising with Republicans on the chamber's next speaker as the GOP has wrestled with unifying around their leader, Kevin McCarthy of California.
When pressed by ABC "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos on whether he would entertain an agreement with Republican centrists should McCarthy fail to clinch the speakership, given how narrow McCarthy's majority will be in the next Congress, Jeffries demurred.
Of the 222 Republicans who will be in the majority next year, five have said they won't vote for McCarthy to lead them. "The question on the other side of the aisle is: What will Republicans do? Are they gonna double and triple down on the extremism that we've seen from people like Marjorie Taylor Greene? That would be unfortunate," he said.
Stephanopoulos asked Jeffries if he had a response to criticism from Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said Jeffries was a "past election denier" for attacking Trump's legitimacy as president.
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