'Rubbed me the wrong way': Dem blasts Hakeem Jeffries over 'Mission Accomplished' moment

The Democrats had a great day in the latest election, but Hakeem Jeffries is being called out for purportedly taking a page out of George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" playbook.

Jeffries was put on the spot by a former lawmaker who is now a registered Democrat. Joe Walsh was once a Tea Party Republican congressman, but he abandoned his party with the coming of Trump, and recently he flagged a "much, much, much, much, much bigger" than Trump.

Now, Walsh is calling out Jeffries with profanity.

"The day after a HUGE win for Democrats all over the country, I’ve got just a quick bone to pick with Hakeem Jeffries," Walsh wrote. "So late last night, after this romp happened, what did House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries say? The Democratic Party is not dead. Can we cool it with these premature obituaries of the Democratic Party? The Democratic Party is back. And I thought, 'The Democratic Party is back'? Respectfully, Hakeem, what happened yesterday had nothing to do with the Democratic Party."

He continued:

"Voters came out yesterday in America and repudiated Donald Trump. They voted for Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger and Zohran Mamdani. They voted for the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, school board. They voted for Pennsylvania’s three Supreme Court justices. They voted for two statewide candidates down in Georgia. I could go on and on and on... Americans yesterday who voted were so pissed off and so scared to death that they would have stripped butt-a-- naked and crawled across broken glass for miles to vote. That’s how pissed off and afraid we all were."

He then added, "This was all because of the grassroots voters, the resistance. That’s who carried the day yesterday. It wasn’t because of the Democratic Party, Hakeem Jeffries. It wasn’t because of you, Hakeem Jeffries. It wasn’t because of Chuck Schumer. It wasn’t because of Ken Martin and the DNC. No. That kind of rubbed me the wrong way."

"Look, I get it. Democrats had a good day. Thank God. But Hakeem Jeffries declaring that the party is back is a bit like George W. Bush and the infamous 'mission accomplished' sign," according to Walsh, who then asked, "Why even say that? You won one Election Day here, Hakeem. Chill, baby. You’ve got a lot more to prove."

In his conclusion, Walsh wrote, "You wanna show me the Democratic Party is back? Then you need to meet the f------ moment."

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