AIPAC's money
$1.74 million from pro-Israel donors
Jeffries is one of the top recipients of pro-Israel money in Congress: $1,741,230 from pro-Israel PACs and individuals through 2024.
Not-Keem
Where his support stands
House Democrats pick their nominee behind closed doors Nov. 18. The full House elects the Speaker Jan. 3. 54 days until the House votes for Speaker
3/34Votes needed
31To go
251 total Democrats
Threshold to block him
Jeffries must keep 218 to become Speaker
3Not voting for Jeffries
- Angela Gonzales-Torres (CA-34, newly elected)
- Richard Ojeda (NC-09, newly elected)
- Ayanna Pressley (MA-07)
19Not committed
- Melat Kiros (CO-01, newly elected)
- Donavan McKinney (MI-13, newly elected)
- LaKesha Womack (NC-14, newly elected)
- Don Leonard (OH-15, newly elected)
- Adam Hamawy (NJ-12, newly elected)
- Claire Valdez (NY-07, newly elected)
- Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY-13, newly elected)
- Chris Rabb (PA-03, newly elected)
- Mike McGuire (CA-01, newly elected)
- Rohit Khanna (CA-17)
- Daniel Biss (IL-09, newly elected)
- Cyril Jefferson (NC-06, newly elected)
- Paul Barringer (NC-13, newly elected)
- Zack Mullock (NJ-02, newly elected)
- Analilia Mejia (NJ-11)
- Cait Conley (NY-17, newly elected)
- Brian Poindexter (OH-07, newly elected)
- Greg Casar (TX-37)
Declined to commit
- Katy Stout (TX-23, newly elected)
229Counted for Jeffries
- Shomari Figures (AL-02)
- Terri Sewell (AL-07)
- Amish Shah (AZ-01, newly elected)
- Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03)
- Greg Stanton (AZ-04)
- Joanna Mendoza (AZ-06, newly elected)
- Adelita Grijalva (AZ-07)
- Jared Huffman (CA-02)
- Ami Bera (CA-03)
- Richard Pan (CA-06, newly elected)
- John Garamendi (CA-08)
- Josh Harder (CA-09)
- Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10)
- Scott Wiener (CA-11, newly elected)
- Lateefah Simon (CA-12)
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- Adam Gray (CA-13)
- Kevin Mullin (CA-15)
- Sam Liccardo (CA-16)
- Zoe Lofgren (CA-18)
- Jimmy Panetta (CA-19)
- Jim Costa (CA-21)
- Randy Villegas (CA-22, newly elected)
- Salud Carbajal (CA-24)
- Raul Ruiz (CA-25)
- Jacqui Irwin (CA-26, newly elected)
- George Whitesides (CA-27)
- Judy Chu (CA-28)
- Luz Rivas (CA-29)
- Laura Friedman (CA-30)
- Gilbert Cisneros (CA-31)
- Brad Sherman (CA-32)
- Pete Aguilar (CA-33)
- Norma Torres (CA-35)
- Ted Lieu (CA-36)
- Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37)
- Hilda Solis (CA-38, newly elected)
- Mark Takano (CA-39)
- Linda Sanchez (CA-41)
- Robert Garcia (CA-42)
- Maxine Waters (CA-43)
- Nanette Barragan (CA-44)
- Derek Tran (CA-45)
- Lou Correa (CA-46)
- Dave Min (CA-47)
- Marni Von Wilpert (CA-48, newly elected)
- Mike Levin (CA-49)
- Scott Peters (CA-50)
- Sara Jacobs (CA-51)
- Juan Vargas (CA-52)
- Joseph Neguse (CO-02)
- Jessica Killin (CO-05, newly elected)
- Jason Crow (CO-06)
- Brittany Pettersen (CO-07)
- Manny Rutinel (CO-08, newly elected)
- Luke Bronin (CT-01, newly elected)
- Joseph Courtney (CT-02)
- Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
- Jim Himes (CT-04)
- Jahana Hayes (CT-05)
- Sarah McBride (DE-AL)
- Kathy Castor (FL-14)
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-20)
- Pia Dandiya (FL-22, newly elected)
- Lois Frankel (FL-23)
- Oliver Gilbert (FL-24, newly elected)
- Jared Moskowitz (FL-25)
- Sanford Bishop (GA-02)
- Henry Johnson (GA-04)
- Nikema Williams (GA-05)
- Lucy McBath (GA-06)
- Jasmine Clark (GA-13, newly elected)
- Edward Case (HI-01)
- Jill Tokuda (HI-02)
- Christina Bohannan (IA-01, newly elected)
- Lindsay James (IA-02, newly elected)
- Sarah Trone Garriott (IA-03, newly elected)
- Jonathan Jackson (IL-01)
- Donna Miller (IL-02, newly elected)
- Delia Ramirez (IL-03)
- Patty Garcia (IL-04, newly elected)
- Mike Quigley (IL-05)
- Sean Casten (IL-06)
- La Shawn Ford (IL-07, newly elected)
- Melissa Bean (IL-08, newly elected)
- Bradley Schneider (IL-10)
- G. Foster (IL-11)
- Nikki Budzinski (IL-13)
- Lauren Underwood (IL-14)
- Eric Sorensen (IL-17)
- Frank Mrvan (IN-01)
- James Ford (IN-05, newly elected)
- Andre Carson (IN-07)
- Sharice Davids (KS-03)
- Morgan McGarvey (KY-03)
- Zach Dembo (KY-06, newly elected)
- Richard Neal (MA-01)
- Jim McGovern (MA-02)
- Lori Trahan (MA-03)
- Jake Auchincloss (MA-04)
- Katherine Clark (MA-05)
- Daniel Koh (MA-06, newly elected)
- Stephen Lynch (MA-08)
- William Keating (MA-09)
- John Olszewski (MD-02)
- Sarah Elfreth (MD-03)
- Glenn Ivey (MD-04)
- Adrian Boafo (MD-05, newly elected)
- April Delaney (MD-06)
- Kweisi Mfume (MD-07)
- Jamie Raskin (MD-08)
- Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
- Hillary Scholten (MI-03)
- Sean McCann (MI-04, newly elected)
- Debbie Dingell (MI-06)
- William Lawrence (MI-07, newly elected)
- Kristen McDonald Rivet (MI-08)
- Christina Hines (MI-10, newly elected)
- Jeremy Moss (MI-11, newly elected)
- Rashida Tlaib (MI-12)
- Matt Little (MN-02, newly elected)
- Kelly Morrison (MN-03)
- Betty McCollum (MN-04)
- Ilhan Omar (MN-05)
- Wesley Bell (MO-01)
- Frederick Wellman (MO-02, newly elected)
- Emanuel Cleaver Ii (MO-05)
- Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
- Samuel Forstag (MT-01, newly elected)
- Don Davis (NC-01)
- Deborah Ross (NC-02)
- Valerie Foushee (NC-04)
- Jamie Ager (NC-11, newly elected)
- Alma Adams (NC-12)
- Denise Powell (NE-02, newly elected)
- Stefany Shaheen (NH-01, newly elected)
- Maggie Goodlander (NH-02)
- Donald Norcross (NJ-01)
- Herb Conaway (NJ-03)
- Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05)
- Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06)
- Rebecca Bennett (NJ-07, newly elected)
- Robert Menendez (NJ-08)
- Nelida Pou (NJ-09)
- LaMonica McIver (NJ-10)
- Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)
- Gabriel Vasquez (NM-02)
- Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM-03)
- Dina Titus (NV-01)
- Teresa Benitez-Thompson (NV-02, newly elected)
- Susie Lee (NV-03)
- Steven Horsford (NV-04)
- Thomas Suozzi (NY-03)
- Laura Gillen (NY-04)
- Gregory Meeks (NY-05)
- Grace Meng (NY-06)
- Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08)
- Yvette Clarke (NY-09)
- Brad Lander (NY-10, newly elected)
- Micah Lasher (NY-12, newly elected)
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14)
- Ritchie Torres (NY-15)
- George Latimer (NY-16)
- Patrick Ryan (NY-18)
- Josh Riley (NY-19)
- Paul Tonko (NY-20)
- John Mannion (NY-22)
- Joseph Morelle (NY-25)
- Timothy Kennedy (NY-26)
- Greg Landsman (OH-01)
- Joyce Beatty (OH-03)
- Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
- Kristina Knickerbocker (OH-10, newly elected)
- M Brown (OH-11)
- Emilia Sykes (OH-13)
- Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01)
- Maxine Dexter (OR-03)
- Valerie Hoyle (OR-04)
- Janelle Bynum (OR-05)
- Andrea Salinas (OR-06)
- Robert Harvie (PA-01, newly elected)
- Brendan Boyle (PA-02)
- Madeleine Dean (PA-04)
- Mary Scanlon (PA-05)
- Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06)
- Bob Brooks (PA-07, newly elected)
- Paige Cognetti (PA-08, newly elected)
- Janelle Stelson (PA-10, newly elected)
- Summer Lee (PA-12)
- Chris Deluzio (PA-17)
- Gabriel Amo (RI-01)
- Seth Magaziner (RI-02)
- James Clyburn (SC-06)
- Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07)
- Leticia Gutierrez (TX-09, newly elected)
- Bobby Pulido (TX-15, newly elected)
- Veronica Escobar (TX-16)
- Christian Menefee (TX-18)
- Joaquin Castro (TX-20)
- Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
- Sylvia Garcia (TX-29)
- Frederick Haynes (TX-30, newly elected)
- Colin Allred (TX-33, newly elected)
- Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
- Johnny Garcia (TX-35, newly elected)
- Ben McAdams (UT-01, newly elected)
- Shannon Taylor (VA-01, newly elected)
- Elaine Luria (VA-02, newly elected)
- Robert Scott (VA-03)
- Jennifer McClellan (VA-04)
- Eugene Simon Vindman (VA-07)
- Donald Beyer (VA-08)
- Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10)
- James Walkinshaw (VA-11)
- Janelle Sarauw (VI-AL, newly elected)
- Rebecca Balint (VT-AL)
- Suzan DelBene (WA-01)
- Rick Larsen (WA-02)
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
- Emily Randall (WA-06)
- Pramila Jayapal (WA-07)
- Kim Schrier (WA-08)
- D. Smith (WA-09)
- Marilyn Strickland (WA-10)
- Mitchell Berman (WI-01, newly elected)
- Mark Pocan (WI-02)
- Rebecca Cooke (WI-03, newly elected)
- Gwen Moore (WI-04)
- Maxwell Frost (FL-10)
- Nancy Lacore (SC-01, newly elected)
A Speaker needs a majority of the House: 218 votes if all 435 members vote. Republicans won't vote for Jeffries, so the goal is the number of Democrats it takes to keep him under 218. House Democrats are added as their races are called. Members who haven't gone on record are counted for Jeffries.
No to Jeffries
Add your name and join A Fight Worth Having in our effort to block Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker of the House.
Voters have given Democrats the chance of a lifetime: the chance to repair and rebuild this country in a way that is substantial, transformational and lasting. Hakeem has proven he isn't the man to help us do that. We need change, and that change starts at the top.
Why not Jeffries
He's out of step with the voters who just handed Democrats the House
Aug. 16, 2026
Medicare for All
“It's not legislation that I currently am cosponsoring or that I support.”
119 House members sponsor or cosponsor the Medicare for All Act. Jeffries isn't one of them.
Nov. 4, 2026
Where the party's energy is
“The American people don't want us to get even. They want us to get things done on their behalf.”
The candidates he endorsed against progressive challengers, Reps. Dan Goldman, Adriano Espaillat and Shri Thanedar, all lost their primaries.
New York Daily News, Nov. 4; Roll Call, June 23; NBC News, Aug. 4
Other pollsters find the same thing
Independents
47% unfavorable
A week after the election, 47% of independents viewed Jeffries unfavorably. Only 20% viewed him favorably.
Democrats
From 80% to 64%
Democrats' approval of Jeffries fell from 80% in 2023 to 64% in December 2025.
Medicare for All
88% of Democrats support it
88% of Democrats and 65% of independents support Medicare for All. Jeffries doesn't.
Military aid to Israel
67% of Democrats say no
Asked whether the U.S. should send military aid to Israel, 67% of Democrats and 63% of independents said no.
Who should be Speaker?
To stop Jeffries, we need an alternative. Vote for who you want as Speaker, and see who's leading.
Photo: Hakeem Jeffries, Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0.
