Daily News | A dose of online brotherly love humanized a chaotic Speaker vote
But Rep. Jeffries, 52, who made history as the first Black lawmaker to lead a major party in Congress, wasn’t the only Jeffries getting noticed.on Twitter — took to the site to offer the kind of playful ribbing only a sibling could get away with, gaining upwards of 10,000 new Twitter followers in the process.in his own right: a historian, author, and professor at The
“Oh, how I wish this was true!,” he tweeted before going on to acknowledge years of defeats at the hands of his older brother in backyard basketball games in the ‘80s “before my growth spurt,” and the ‘90s “after my growth spurt,” and “a mini streak at the Ohio State Rec Center in 2010.”In another post, with a photo of Tuesday’s ballot that showed his brother with a consistent 212 votes, Hasan wrote: “The #GOP needs to get its act together because I already see where this is going.
first official speech as House Minority leader that included an alphabetized rundown of his party’s priorities. I reached out to the younger Jeffries to talk about his tweets and his relationship with his brother, but he did the solid protective brotherly thing and said it was probably best to let his tweets speak for themselves.
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