Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Jeffries is the Democratic U.S. Representative for New York's 8th District and House Minority Leader.
“We'll use every tool available, including suing the heck out of him if he tries to go down this road, to prevent him from trying to rig the midterm elections. … His policies have been a failure, and Republicans have failed America.”
Bloomberg This Weekend · February 2026
Context
Said on Bloomberg This Weekend in February 2026, responding to a Washington Post report that the president was considering an executive order declaring a national emergency over elections. Jeffries went on to list earlier Supreme Court rulings against the administration's emergency-powers claims.
Transcript
…to be brought to life legislatively. Where the President threatened to abandon the way in which elections have been conducted for the better part of almost two hundred and fifty years here in this country and try to nationalize them. This so called Save America Act is dead on arrival in the Senate.
It's not going anywhere.
…justices, declared clearly that the President did not have that emergency authority with respect to tariffs and declared them unlawful and unconstitutional. And in the same vein, we'll use every tool available, including suing the heck out of him if he tries to go down this road, to prevent him from trying to rig the mid term elections, because he knows his presidency hasn't been a failure. His policies have been a failure, and Republicans have failed America.
Leader Jeffers, we've talked about the democratic message. Let me ask you about what we've heard from the president on the campaign trail. This is a refrain he's used over and over again. Let me play it.
You got to win the midterms, because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going.
To be.
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