During a press conference on Wednesday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) touted results from a Virginia special election on Tuesday night won by the Democratic candidate, James Walkinshaw, who achieved 75% of the vote.
00:00Thank you, Mr. Leader. A growing number of House Democrats are expressing support for certain provisions in Trump's budget bill, whether that's No Taxes on Tips or World Cup funding or funding nuclear radiation funds.
00:14Would you encourage members to continue touting some of these provisions? And does it at all muddy the messaging?
00:22I'm sorry. I'm sorry. What budget bill, just for clarity, are you talking about? Are you talking about the one big ugly bill or what has been proposed?
00:29Yes. What you call the one big ugly bill, does that muddy the messaging that you have on there if some members in your party are touting some of those provisions?
00:37No.
00:39I'm wondering if you could weigh in on the Walkinshaw victory and what it means for margins in the House, depending upon when he's sworn in negotiations over the next few weeks.
00:49Well, we look forward to Representative-elect Walkinshaw being sworn in later on this evening.
00:56We welcomed him to the Democratic Whip meeting this morning.
01:01It's another data point in a series of special elections where Democrats have consistently overperformed.
01:09James won that district by 50 points, which is, as far as I can tell, a 16-point overperformance of what was done at the presidential level last November,
01:27continuing the fact that, on average, in special elections throughout this year, Democrats have overperformed the 2024 results by 15 points
01:41and flipping red seats blue all across the country, including in places like Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska.
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