‘Freedom over fascism’ and ‘governing over gaslighting’: Hakeem Jeffries’ ‘masterpiece’ A to Z speech goes viral

In the early minutes of Saturday morning Republicans elected Kevin McCarthy Speaker of the House on the fifteenth try. Minutes earlier a fistfight nearly erupted as one GOP Member had to be physically restrained from attacking Matt Gaetz. After five days of wheeling and dealing behind closed doors, and minutes after McCarthy very publicly in the House chamber appeared to beg Gaetz for his vote (which he was denied), the Republican Majority Leader became Speaker of the House. But before officially handing McCarthy the Speaker’s gavel (the gavel the California Republican, months earlier, “joked”…

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