Having majorities was not enough for the Republicans to quickly define their leader in the House of Representatives in Washington DC; And that they took for granted that the result of the vote in the elections of November 8 would be a “red wave” where they did not do as well as predicted.
And it is that the possibility is not negligible, since assuming the position of president, makes the elected legislator the third authority at the federal level, after the president, Joe Biden, and the vice president, Kamala Harris and would remain in the line of command to assume the leadership of the country in case something happens and none of the above could govern.
We also hope that with this change in the presidency of the Chamber, a new political battlefront is not opening up that stops the agenda of laws that serve everyone, and thus becomes a counterattack, that is, after the conclusion of the committee investigating the possible responsibility of former president Donald Trump in the seizure of the nation’s capitol, now decide to open a new front and dedicate themselves to investigating the Bidens and especially Hunter, the son of the president of the United States.
As we said in previous notes, it is not easy to put on the leadership shoes that fell to Democrat Nancy Pelosi And that is why the surprise was general this week when for the first time in 100 years there was no immediate consensus to achieve the 218 necessary votes and define the chosen one in a single round. The leader of the caucus, Kevin McCarthy, has been in the middle of the division orchestrated by the most conservative Republicans.
The irony is that their rivals from the Democratic Party made it easy and deposited 212 votes for the African-American New Yorker Hakeem Jeffries, who thus assumes his role as minority leader since January 3; And if there is party unity to defend the government’s agenda, as this vote result seems to show, he seems to gather more majorities and we could dream that soon with that leadership there would be a new singing voice that advocates the immigration reform that is needed to solve the crisis with the massive arrival of people without permission, through the southern border.
We hope that the representative Steve Scalise as a Republican leader has the power to convoke so that his party overcomes these divisions and the distances are overcome, because if they do not unite, it is useless for them to be the majority.
Sofía Villa is the author and writes this column in her personal capacity. Her opinions do not represent Televisa-Univision Inc. where she works as a Writer / Producer.