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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries raised eyebrows last week when he staunchly supported one member facing a primary challenge but declined, in the same press conference, to endorse another: Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the 11-term incumbent who is seeking reelection in the newly drawn—and historically Black—20th congressional district. “I haven’t made a decision,” Jeffries said on Tuesday. “I think we all recognize the sensitivities of the moment in terms of an unprecedented Jim Crow–like assault on Black political representation.”
