Woke House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Monday forcefully defended his vow to unleash “maximum warfare” against Republicans when pressed by reporters about the inflammatory phrase.
Asked about the language in light of the recent attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, Jeffries replied, “I stand by it,” adding, “You can continue to criticize me for it, I don’t give a damn about your criticism.”
Jeffries has used the phrase repeatedly in recent days while celebrating Democratic redistricting wins in Virginia and vowing to “crush” what he has called the “DeSantis dummymander” in Florida.
At a Capitol news conference last week, he framed the fight over congressional maps by declaring, “We are in an era of maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”
The New York Democrat has attempted to argue that his rhetoric refers to a hard‑fought political and legal campaign over redistricting. Even as he doubled down, Jeffries hypocritically insisted he “unequivocally” denounces political violence, saying in a television interview that “violence is never the answer, whether it’s targeted at the right, the left or the center.”
Republicans have seized on the comments, with the National Republican Congressional Committee circulating a clip of Jeffries saying he stands by “maximum warfare” and calling the remarks “unhinged” in a widely shared post on X.
Critics in opinion outlets and online have argued that by vowing “maximum warfare” against the GOP “everywhere, all the time,” Jeffries is dehumanizing Republican voters and escalating a climate in which political violence is at an all time high, even as he publicly claims to call for unity and lower temperatures in public life.
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