Jeffries, a congressman from New York, is the House minority leader and could be the speaker if Democrats win control on Tuesday.
U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, was in Montgomery on Thursday to campaign for Shomari Figures in the 2nd Congressional District. Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed and Congresswoman Terri Sewell also spoke.U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York came to Montgomery on Thursday to campaign for Shomari Figures in Alabama’s pivotal 2nd Congressional District, a potential flip for Democrats.
“There are extremists in this country who have adopted voter suppression as an electoral strategy, and when you have individuals who’ve adopted voter suppression as an electoral strategy, you have to ask the question, why?” Jeffries said. “When you talk about pushing people off of voting rolls, like literally weeks and days before an election, that’s literally an effort to dissuade people from going to the polls to even cast a ballot,” Figures said.“So when you see proactive efforts across this country to limit the field of eligible voters, then I look at it through the lens of voter suppression,” Figures said.
Allen, asked about the comments of Jeffries and Figures on voter suppression, said he stood by a statement he gave Wednesday in support of the Virginia initiative. Jeffries acknowledged Alabama’s central roles in advancing civil rights and voting rights for Black Americans. Sewell noted the urgency for Democratic voters to take advantage of the opportunity to capture the 2nd District, which Republicans have held for 14 years under the old map.
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