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Hakeem Jeffries is on track to make House speaker history. But major challenges lay ahead

Hakeem Jeffries is on track to make House speaker history. But major challenges lay ahead
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By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Soon after Hakeem Jeffries arrived in the House in 2013, one of his earliest mentors approached a group of senior Black Democrats with a message. “I think he is the one,” former Rep. Eddie Bernie Johnson told lawmakers at the time, including Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, who...

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