suggestions for amendments so, that process needs to work out, as they re hope to pass this by the end of the week. still uncertain if they can gem there, as they move through this lame-duck session. house democrats are to vote on their leadership. hakeem jefferson is expected to succeed nancy pelosi. does he have the votes? reporter: he does, and he doesn t have any opposition. it should be a relatively smooth transition, something that was uncertainly after nancy pelosi announced her decision to step aside, but by the decisions by number two and three not to seek those positions, and instead allow for a new generation of democratic lead ters to go forward, they re expected to get those positions essentially by
let me start on this generational changing of the guard that appears to be happening among the leadership in your caucus. how coordinated was this? and why now? thank you very much for having me, chris. it was very much coordinated. i think people have been talking for a long time now. people have been experiencing within our caucus will our constituents and event that as we would say we need to put a transition in place. you may recall two years ago, president biden was running. he referred to himself in transitional terms. all of us i was elected to congress at 52. we see now hakeem jefferson is a leader at 52. that shows you the transition
on this. because nancy pelosi resigning, she made this commentary herself saying it was time to pass the baton over, and granted she s held on for 20 years. the new leadership coming up in the house isn t necessarily so clear on the democrat s side. yeah, i think if someone like hakeem jefferson emerges as the likely minority leader, a person of color, highly qualified from new york, i think that he would offer the prospect as a younger man of fresh ideas and fresh service. i think the other point i would make is the issue dynamic of 2022, particularly for democrats on issues like abortion were to stimulate younger voters to turn out. lee is undeniably correct that both parties would benefit by new and younger leadership, fresh ideas. she s also right that the republicans have a deeper bench
As the results of the 2022 Midterm Elections are coming in, Stanford Professors Larry Diamond, Hakeem Jefferson, and Bruce Cain provided their insights on…