纽约众议员哈基姆·杰弗里斯，可能即将上任的众议院民主党领袖他预计，即使在政策分歧的情况下，他的政党也会团结成一个新的少数派。
杰弗里斯是即将离任的加州众议长南希·佩洛西的长期支持者，有时会发生争执他所在政党的左翼成员。然而，在外表上在CNN的“国情咨文”节目中。他吹嘘自己与自由派和温和派都有很强的关系。
“我非常尊重众议员(亚历山大)奥卡西奥-科尔特斯和众议院民主党核心小组的每一个成员，从众议员奥卡西奥-科尔特斯到众议员乔希·戈特海默，我的好朋友，以及他们之间的所有人，”杰弗里斯告诉CNN的杰克·塔珀。
“关于我们，杰克，虽然我们有时会就如何为美国人民取得进展进行一些嘈杂的对话，但我们看到的是，在议长佩洛西、斯泰尼·霍耶、吉姆·克莱本的领导下，我们一直能够一次又一次地走到一起，”杰弗里斯补充说，他指的是即将离任的众议院多数党领袖和多数党党鞭。
过去，杰弗里斯认为党内其他人强调了“进步民主党人和极左的民主社会主义者”之间的区别，他接受了前一个标签。
“我是一名黑人进步民主党人，关心解决种族、社会和经济不公正问题，这是当务之急。这是我的职业生涯，这是我的旅程，无论我有机会服务多久，我都会继续前进。我永远不会向极左的民主社会主义屈膝，”他告诉记者大西洋去年。
杰弗里斯于2012年首次当选，在佩洛西、霍耶和克莱伯恩上周都表示他们不会寻求收回他们在会议领导团队中的职位后，他目前正在竞选众议院民主党领袖。(克莱伯恩正在竞选11月30日举行的党内选举中的第四名。)
在周四的一次演讲中，佩洛西像她的副手一样已经领导了多年，称赞“新一代”
Hakeem Jeffries arrives to hold a news conference in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Nov. 15, 2022.
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展望明年1月众议院共和党的多数席位，杰弗里斯在美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)上表示，他将对与共和党人合作持开放态度，但会毫不犹豫地面对他所谓的“极端主义”。
众议院共和党领袖凯文·麦卡锡承诺将继续监督拜登白宫，同时挑战民主党过去两年的统一统治。杰弗里斯告诉塔珀，虽然他“最近”没有和麦卡锡说过话，“我认为，我和少数党党鞭史蒂夫·斯卡利斯的关系要好得多”。
麦卡锡周日在福克斯新闻频道表示，他的微弱多数需要团结起来，以实现其优先事项，包括关注中国和南部边境。
他说:“我们需要团结一致，因为如果事情继续向前发展，我们要求进行的所有调查、保护边境、阻止行动，都无法向前发展。”。
杰弗里斯在美国有线电视新闻网上说:“(我)期待着随时随地工作...与整个众议院共和党会议和领导团队一起找到共同点，为美国人民的日常生活做出贡献，取得进步。”
他说:“但是，当然，我们将强烈反对任何共和党越权的企图和任何共和党极端主义。”“我希望共和党领导层能够从全国人民对极端主义的拒绝中吸取教训，而不是在下届国会上加倍下注。”
Jeffries, Pelosi's likely successor, says Dems can have 'noisy conversations' and still come together
New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries,the likely incoming House Democratic leader, said Sunday that he anticipates his party will be united in a new minority even amid policy disagreements.
Jeffries, a longtime allay of outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,has sometimes been at oddswith members of his party's left flank. However, in an appearanceon CNN's "State of the Union,"he boasted of strong relationships with both liberals and moderates.
"Well, I have great respect for Rep. [Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez and every single member of the House Democratic caucus, from Rep. Ocasio-Cortez to Rep. Josh Gottheimer, my good friend, and all points in between," Jeffries told CNN's Jake Tapper.
"The thing about us, Jake, is that while we can have some noisy conversations at times about how we can make progress for the American people, what we have seen is that under the leadership of Speaker Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Jim Clyburn, we have constantly been able to come together, time and time again," Jeffries added, referring to the outgoing House majority leader and majority whip.
In the past, Jeffries has argued that others in the party enforce a difference between "progressive Democrats and hard-left democratic socialists," and he has embraced the former label.
"I'm a Black progressive Democrat concerned with addressing racial and social and economic injustice with the fierce urgency of now. That's been my career, that's been my journey, and it will continue to be as I move forward for however long I have an opportunity to serve. There will never be a moment where I bend the knee to hard-left democratic socialism," he toldThe Atlanticlast year.
Jeffries, who was first elected in 2012, is currently running unopposed to be leader of the House Democrats after Pelosi, Hoyer and Clyburn all said last week they wouldn't seek to reclaim their positions in the conference's leadership team. (Clyburn is running for the No. 4 spot in the intraparty elections set for Nov. 30.)
In a speech on Thursday, Pelosi, who like her deputies has been in leadership for years, hailed a "new generation."
Looking to a House GOP majority come January, Jeffries said on CNN that he would be open to working with Republicans but would not hesitate to confront what he labeled as "extremism."
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy has promised to pursue oversight of the Biden White House while challenging Democrats' past two years of unified rule. Jeffries told Tapper that while he hadn't "recently" spoken with McCarthy, "I do have, I think, a much warmer relationship with Steve Scalise," the minority whip.
McCarthy, appearing on Fox News on Sunday, said his slim majority will need to be unified to achieve its priorities, including focusing on China and the southern border.
"We need to work as one because if that continues to move forward, all the investigations we asked to happen, the securing the border, the stopping the movement, none of that can the move forward," he said.
Jeffries, for his part, said on CNN: "[I] look forward to working whenever and wherever possible ... with the entire House Republican conference and the leadership team to find common ground to get things done for everyday Americans to make progress."
"But, of course, we will fiercely and vigorously oppose any attempts at Republican overreach and any Republican extremism," he said. "And I'm hopeful that the Republican leadership will take lessons away from the rejection of extremism by the American people all across the land, and not double- and triple-down on it in the next Congress."
