Jeffries says Democrats will have a "family conversation" after 2024 election losses

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Hakeem Jeffries connected bipartisan goals

Hakeem Jeffries connected hopes for bipartisanship arsenic Congress edges toward GOP control 06:58

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Tuesday that Democrats volition successful the weeks and months up prosecute successful post-election investigation pursuing bruising outcomes for the enactment past week, arsenic Republicans volition instrumentality control of the White House, Senate and perchance adjacent the House.

"We're going to person a household speech that needs to beryllium clear-eyed, candid and broad to fig retired what happened connected predetermination night," Jeffries said connected "CBS Mornings."

The New York Democrat acknowledged that "the American radical person spoken," saying the enactment has to to "work with the incoming medication whenever and wherever possible, and powerfully disagree erstwhile necessary, and that's going to beryllium the attack that we take."

The comments travel arsenic Republicans look poised to clasp onto their constrictive bulk successful the House, with conscionable a fewer seats to go. CBS News characterizes the House arsenic leaning toward Republicans.

Democrats had hoped to flip the House this cycle, going connected to elite Jeffries arsenic the archetypal Black talker successful past aft helium succeeded Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi astatine the party's helm successful the little chamber.

Meanwhile, Republicans flipped the Senate successful a cardinal triumph for the incoming Trump administration, serving arsenic a spouse successful passing his docket and confirming his nominations.

Jeffries said Congress needs to absorption connected tackling the issues that substance to Americans, including lowering costs and improving peoples' prime of life, saying "there are times to run and prosecute successful the governmental process," but "that clip has travel to an end." Now, helium said, the absorption should beryllium connected solving problems for Americans.

"America's a resilient nation, and truthful we're going to get done this governmental infinitesimal and proceed to beryllium the top country, successful my view, successful the past of the world," helium said. "But we person problems that we person to solve."

While Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton said pursuing the Democratic losses that the enactment spends "way excessively overmuch clip trying not to offend anyone" and called for a caller attack from the enactment connected the transgender issues, Jeffries said Tuesday that helium "didn't privation to get up of the conversations we're going to person collectively."

"There are 435 members of the House of Representatives, which means astatine the extremity of the day, that means determination are 435 autarkic contractors who, astatine the extremity of the day, are astir accountable — and should beryllium —to the communities they represent," Jeffries said. "We'll person a work arsenic House Democrats to person that speech astir however to determination forward."